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Jonah and the Whale

Through the Eyes of Artists

By James Limburg

During the Second World War,” the guide was saying, “all these windows were taken out and put in storage. We were afraid of bombs.”

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Footnotes

1.

Midrash is a collective term for Jewish nonliteral scriptural exegesis.

2.

See Jane and John Dillenberger, “Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling—To Clean or Not to Clean,” and Suzanne F. Singer, “Understanding the Sistine Chapel and Its Paintings,” BR 04:04.

Endnotes

1.

In Margaret R. Miles, Image as Insight (Boston: Beacon, 1985), p. 38.

2.

Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer; see Jonah; A New Translation with a Commentary Anthologized from Talmudic, Midrashic and Rabbinic Sources, translation and commentary by Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz (Brooklyn: Mesorah Publication, 1978), p. 88.

3.

Aldous Huxley, “Jonah,” in The Cherry Tree, ed. Geoffrey Grigson (New York: Vanguard, 1959), p. 211.

4.

I found this fountain thanks to a tip from Prof. Palmer Eide of Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

5.

Gerhard von Rad, Das Opfer des Abrahams (Munich: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1971) pp. 86–87, my translation.