So you think you know your Bible? If all you know about Jonah is that he got swallowed by some creature of the deep, then you had better read this book!
Worse, you probably had never even heard of the Book of Nahum, let alone have given thought as to why it is in the Bible nor the meaning of its message.
Commentaries on the Book of Nahum are as rare as hen's teeth so here is your chance to be challenged, intrigued, informed and biblicised.
Even if you know Jonah, you only know part of the story.... both Jonah and Nahum refer to Niniveh, a City which all the know-it-alls of their day stated was a total myth until archaeologists dug it up in the late nineteenth century.
Jonah without Nahum is like bread without butter.
Read this and let God form something in you, not merely inform you....
David Cooke has been a practising Christian all his life, and one day hopes that he will actually be qualified!
He does not believe in dry-as-dust commentaries and wishes to challenge and intrigue his readers: to see devotional lives enriched rather than merely increased levels of knowledge.
David Cooke enjoyed a varied Church background: and has for many years been at Revelation, Chichester.
He studied at All Nations Christian College and Exeter University.
He writes poetry, has just finished his first play, has many friends and has travelled widely in various parts of Africa, in particular Congo, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.
On a good day with the wind behind him, he thinks he has something important to contribute to Christendom; hopefully his readership agrees....
What the book of Jonah contains
One of the shortest books of The Bible, 48 verses in all, Jonah is nevertheless widely known. Nearly everyone has heard of the whale!
The story sticks in one's mind. It is a good yarn. It intrigues. It is a drama. It raises questions.
It is also self-contained and therefore neat and easy to study.
It is a story on many different levels.
An individual against Nineveh, the capital of the Superpower of the day.
It is a Quest.
It is a life and death situation.
Many great minds have been fascinated by this story.