Project Gutenberg 2025-10-07 Public domain in the USA. 160 Nathan, Robert 1894 1985 25004208 Jonah $aNew York :$bRobert M. McBride & Co., $c1925. Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Jonah" by Robert Nathan is a novel written in the early 20th century. It reimagines the biblical prophet as a gentle, idealistic young man whose desert-born faith collides with worldly priests, nobles, and a sudden love for a noblewoman. Blending fable, satire, and romance—complete with talking creatures and angels—it explores the tensions between prophecy and pragmatism, poverty and power, and the human longing for beauty and certainty. The opening of the novel places Jonah among Israel’s desert prophets, where an angel sends him to Bethel to promise victory over Hamath; the High Priest Amaziah deftly turns this into a war that Israel wins. Returning to his village, Jonah is welcomed by his practical mother Deborah, spars with his ambitious brother Aaron, and is counseled by his old teacher Naaman to keep to the desert. In Prince Ahab’s household, his niece Judith—curious, sheltered, and impressionable—meets Jonah; their conversations about angels and the desert ripen into a tender love, sealed at a moonlit village feast. When Deborah and Uncle David ask Ahab for Judith’s hand, the prince scorns the poor prophet’s suit for lacking a bride price and status. Judith briefly mourns under the watch of her calculating nurse, Sarah, while Jonah, seeking a viable path to marriage, asks Amaziah to make him a priest. The High Priest cautions that marriage would squander Jonah’s rare calling, and the scene closes with his grave challenge to the prophet. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/jonahnath00nath/page/n7/mode/2up 20220122062946nathan 1925 US en Jonah (Biblical prophet) -- Fiction PS Text 224245 2025-11-30T10:15:34.064288 text/html 199675 2025-10-06T22:58:26 text/html 571304 2025-11-30T10:15:39.190333 application/epub+zip 568906 2025-11-30T10:15:35.268294 application/epub+zip 234550 2025-11-30T10:15:34.596294 application/epub+zip 997846 2025-11-30T10:15:42.045297 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 730190 2025-11-30T10:15:38.635285 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 194558 2025-11-30T10:15:33.571417 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 174710 2025-10-06T22:58:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15380 2025-11-30T10:15:42.181249 application/rdf+xml 10982 2025-11-30T10:15:34.794270 image/jpeg 2221 2025-11-30T10:15:34.692287 image/jpeg 731043 2025-11-30T10:15:34.095275 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia