Jonah 1

Jonah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Jonah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.[1][2] This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Jonah, and is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets.[3][4]

Jonah 1
"Jonah being swallowed by the fish". Kennicott Bible, folio 305r (1476).
BookBook of Jonah
CategoryNevi'im
Christian Bible partOld Testament
Order in the Christian part32

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 17 verses in Christian Bible, but 16 verses in Hebrew Bible with the following verse numbering comparison:[5]

Verse numbering for Jonah 1 and 2
EnglishHebrew
1:1-16 1:1-16
1:17 2:1
2:1-10 2:2-11

This article generally follows the common numbering in Christian English Bible versions, with notes to the numbering in Hebrew Bible versions.

Textual versions

The whole Book of Jonah in Latin as a part of Codex Gigas, made around 13th century.

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), and Codex Leningradensis (1008).[6][lower-alpha 1] Fragments cumulatively containing all verses of this chapter in Hebrew were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, including 4Q76 (4QXIIa; 150–125 BCE) with extant verses 1–5, 7–10, 15–17 (1:17 = 2:1 in Hebrew Bible);[8][9][10] 4Q81 (4QXIIf; 175–50 BCE) with extant verses 6–8, 10–16;[9][11][12] 4Q82 (4QXIIg; 25 BCE) with extant verses 1–9;[9][11][13] and Wadi Murabba'at Minor Prophets (Mur88; MurXIIProph; 75–100 CE) with extant verses 1–17 (1:1–16, 2:1 in Hebrew Bible).[9][14]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: S; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).[15] Fragments containing parts of this chapter in Greek were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, that is, Naḥal Ḥever 8Ḥev1 (8ḤevXIIgr); late 1st century BCE) with extant verses 14–17.[9][16]

See also

Notes

  1. Since 1947 the whole book is missing from Aleppo Codex.[7]

References

  1. Collins 2014.
  2. Hayes 2015.
  3. Metzger, Bruce M., et al. The Oxford Companion to the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  4. Keck, Leander E. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume: VII. Nashville: Abingdon.
  5. Book of Jonah chapter 1 and chapter 2 of The Hebrew Bible in Hebrew and English according to the JPS 1917 Edition
  6. Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
  7. P. W. Skehan (2003), "BIBLE (TEXTS)", New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 2 (2nd ed.), Gale, pp. 355–362
  8. Ulrich 2010, pp. 611–612.
  9. Dead sea scrolls - Jonah
  10. Fitzmyer 2008, p. 38.
  11. Fitzmyer 2008, p. 39.
  12. Ulrich 2010, pp. 612–613.
  13. Ulrich 2010, pp. 610–611.
  14. Fitzmyer 2008, pp. 140–141.
  15. Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
  16. Fitzmyer 2008, p. 127.

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