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Footnotes

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B.C.E. (Before the common Era) and C.E. (Common Era) are the scholarly alternate designations corresponding to B.C. and A.D.

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In fact, as we learn later, in Jonah 4:2, Jonah did in fact argue; he there says to the Lord: “O Lord: Is this not what I said when I was still in my own country? That is why I fled beforehand to Tarshish.”

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See my earlier article, “Who Asks (or Tells) God to Repent?” BR 01:04.

Endnotes

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Jerusalem Talmud, Sukkah 5.1 (55a); Pirkei DiRabbi Eliezer, ch. 33.

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The Phrase appears in Jonah 4:2 and in Joel 2:13