Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about Jonah.

When I picture Jonah in my head as a book of the Bible, as a story, I picture something

really family friendly and fun and very paintable.

In fact, all of the family friendly stories that I picture seemed like they would work

really well for decorating a kid's nursery or something, and they all have animals in

them.

The Garden of Eden as animals, Noah's Ark, giraffe sticking out of there.

They all look friendly.

They got smiles on them and stuff.

Daniel and the lions then, the lions all look friendly.

They're not eating anybody.

Jonah in the whale, you get the big fish.

Of course, when you do art for kids that depict these stories, though, you just care

fully crop the image, so you don't see the bloated rotting bodies banging up against

the whole of the ark, and you don't see the decomposing remains of the previous victims

of the lions then, and the same is true of Jonah.

There's a whole bunch of stuff in here that is very gritty and that prompts very adult

introspection as you carefully read through this book.

We don't know who wrote the book of Jonah.

It seems unlikely that it was written by the title character, especially because of

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