Jonah and the Whale Found in Galilee Synagogue

Amanda Borschel-Dan : Jul 10, 2017 Times of Israel

Er, an extremely beautiful and "unprecedented" depiction of Jonah and the Whale that is!

(Israel)—[Times of Israel] Unprecedented depictions of the Biblical Jonah and the whale have been found at a fifth-century Roman synagogue in Israel's lower Galilee. In the recently discovered mosaic, Jonah's legs are shown dangling from the mouth of a large fish, which is being swallowed by a larger fish, which is being consumed by a third, even larger fish. (Photo: A fish swallows an Egyptian soldier in a mosaic scene depicting the splitting of the Red Sea from the Exodus story, from the 5th-century synagogue at Huqoq, in northern Israel/Credit: Jim Haberman/University of North Carolina Chapel Hill/via Times of Israel)

According to the team of specialists and students led by University of North Carolina, this is the first known depiction of the story of Jonah in an ancient synagogue in Israel.

This is the team's seventh season at the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq. Beginning in 2012, a series of other prominent Biblical scenes, including Noah's ark and the splitting of the Red Sea, in which Pharaoh's soldiers are swallowed by large fish similar to the fish swallowing Jonah in the mosaic uncovered this summer, were previously found at the archaeological dig.

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