"phute'okicu" and other new animals

[Anthony Grant]

My understanding is that whatever swallowed Jonah, it certainly wasn't a whale as we know it.  I'd never thought that whales were native to the Middle East anyway! 

Anthony

>>> "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu> 01/24/08 4:50 am >>>
Not being well versed in matters theological, I may be wrong, but I think 'great fish' more closely mirrors the original Hebrew text.  I'll have to check into the education of the translator to see if this is an accident or a superior translation.
 
Bob

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> As a matter of interest, in the OT story of Jonas & the Whale, Buechel's Bible History Stories (1924) merely uses (p.127) : "HOGAN TANKA" [= big fish] for the famous 'whale'.
 

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