What you missed in the Jonah drama

The epic movie The Story of Jonah—A Lesson in Courage and Mercy was released during the 2018 regional conventions of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and may be viewed here:

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/videos/story-of-jonah-courage-and-mercy/

This video is highly recommended and is my all-time favorite.

In it though is a scene with some significance that you may have missed:

The vignette Jonah is looking at is the famous depiction of the chaos monster Tiamat being defeated by Marduk. This is a creation myth where Marduk made the oceans and watery atmosphere from Tiamat’s body. This connects with Jonah’s earlier statement to the sailors that Jehovah is “the One who made the sea and the dry land.” (Jonah 1:9) He is then depicted as looking at the same creation act being attributed to the false-god Marduk.

Additional reading:

• Mining Gems in Jonah
  jimspace3000.blogspot.com/2018/07/mining-gems-in-jonah.html
• Messianic Symbolism of Jonah
  jimspace3000.blogspot.com/2011/05/messianic-symbolism-jonah-jonah-wayward.html

Credits: The first two pictures are from jw.org.