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100 1 _aNathan, Robert,
_d1894-1985
245 1 0 _aJonah
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-07
508 _aTim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"Jonah" by Robert Nathan is a novel written in the early 20th century. It reimagines the biblical prophet as a gentle, idealistic young man whose desert-born faith collides with worldly priests, nobles, and a sudden love for a noblewoman. Blending fable, satire, and romance—complete with talking creatures and angels—it explores the tensions between prophecy and pragmatism, poverty and power, and the human longing for beauty and certainty. The opening of the novel places Jonah among Israel’s desert prophets, where an angel sends him to Bethel to promise victory over Hamath; the High Priest Amaziah deftly turns this into a war that Israel wins. Returning to his village, Jonah is welcomed by his practical mother Deborah, spars with his ambitious brother Aaron, and is counseled by his old teacher Naaman to keep to the desert. In Prince Ahab’s household, his niece Judith—curious, sheltered, and impressionable—meets Jonah; their conversations about angels and the desert ripen into a tender love, sealed at a moonlit village feast. When Deborah and Uncle David ask Ahab for Judith’s hand, the prince scorns the poor prophet’s suit for lacking a bride price and status. Judith briefly mourns under the watch of her calculating nurse, Sarah, while Jonah, seeking a viable path to marriage, asks Amaziah to make him a priest. The High Priest cautions that marriage would squander Jonah’s rare calling, and the scene closes with his grave challenge to the prophet. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1925
653 _aJonah (Biblical prophet) -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/jonahnath00nath/page/n7/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76998
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