Jonah, Nineveh, & Alexander the Great
Here's a fascinating article on archaeological research to find the location of a battle won by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, probably located in Nineveh, the city to which the Hebrew prophet Jonah was sent. https://www.triesteallnews.it/2019/04/16/iraq-archeologi-di-udine-scoprono-il-sito-della-battaglia-di-gaugamela/ The book of Jonah is dated as having been written in 4th/5th century BCE (though it references events in the reign of Jeroboam II, 786–746 BC). So the book of Jonah may have been written as a veiled commentary on Alexander's victory there? This may be old news to Hebrew scripture scholars, but it's a new insight for me, coming at the topic via my interest in the Jonah echo in Shakespeare's Hamlet. I found this via Mirella Granelli on LinkedIn. Thanks, @Mirella! In the journal Clio (III, 1974, 111-128), Paul Jorgensen's essay, "Elizabethan ideas of war in Hamlet," contrasts two ways that nations relate to God regarding state corru...