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Rotation Of The Ninevites
Posted by PANCHO (Guest) - Sunday, October 28 2007, 21:36:43 (CET)
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The story of Jonah, according to Dr Joseph, is either misunderstood or deliberately fudged to lend credence to christo-nationalist claims that their forefathers “always remembered” their Ninevite “forefathers”.

Jonah was sent to the Ninevites to warn them of the Jewish god’s displeasure at their wicked ways. They are told to repent in order to be spared and they do…and so yahwe lays off, temporarily, and kills several other people for sport.

Rather than a celebration, as far as Assyrians are concerned, you’d think they would take great umbrage at being singled out as THE most sinful bastards yahwe could think of . In other words, if yahwe will forgive the thoroughly rotten Ninevites, if they sincerely repent, anyone can win forgiveness. The people of Nineveh are singled out as the worst sort of people imaginable. And our moderns find cause for celebration in this?

To quote from Dr Joseph, p. 26:

“The Eastern Christians, whether Armenians, Copts, Ethiopians, Jacobites or Nestorians, observe a pre-Lenten fast remembering the message of Jonah and what Jesus said of the Ninevites (‘The men of Nineveh will appear in court when this generation (of Jews) is on trial, and ensure its condemnation, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and what is here is greater than Jonah’). Locally, both Christians and Jews commemorated the event: Christians built a church where Jonah ‘had preached’. The Jews of Mosul had the synagogue of Obadiah which, according to tradition, ‘Jonah built’. Emhardt and Lamsa in the 1920s, and the Assyrian nationalists after them, have misinterpreted the Rogation of the Ninevites (Ba’ uta d’ Ninwaye) as a unique fast among the Nestorians, observed as a thanksgiving ‘for the salvation of their forefathers,’ entirely missing the theological and historical significance of the Biblical story of Jonah in both Jewish and Christian tradition.”

The story of Jonah was celebrated by our Eastern Churches not as a memorial or testament or “thanksgiving” for the salvation of Assyrians, but as a reminder of yahwe’s forgiveness of ALL rotten sinners, no matter how rotten….not even if they were as rotten as “our forefathers”.



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