- Does the text deal with the “technical question” of from whence came the “large fish” (there is no specific reference to a whale or any other type of sea creature — simply a “big fish”) and does the fish eat or swallow Jonah? (The Hebrew for these verbs differs.)
- According to the text Jonah, then, is in the innards of the creature for what period of time?
- Jonah then utters tefillot and what is the substance of his tefillah?
- The passages in Jonah 2:3 are in the past tense; when, then, would Jonah have uttered these tefillot and have been answered?
- Does Jonah in this tefillah (which continues through Jonah 2:10) at any point express specific regret for failing to follow God’s direction?
- In Jonah 2:6 does the reference to “tehom” imply the Tiamat of Bereyshit or, simply, an adjective for “the depths of the ocean”?
- Jonah 2:8 indicates that Jonah remembered God at what time — and is this entirely atypical?
- Does Jonah specifically state that it is when there is trouble that he turns to God?
- What pledge does Jonah make in Jonah 2:10 — and does he, at any point (again) indicate that he will follow the mandate which he had sought to avoid?
- Is there any answer from Divinity save for the instructions to the “large fish” which “vomits forth” Jonah on land (and note the specific Hebrew verb)?
