Footnotes

1.

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

2.

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.”

3.

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

Endnotes

1.

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

2.

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