The Book of Jonah — יוֹנָה
		Resources for the Book of Jonah Audio and Text Index Online Resources Audio and Textual Resources The following section contains audio and textual resources specific to the book of Jonah. The Hebrew text of Jonah is presented and accompanied by links to the entire book of Jonah being read aloud in Modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation. The primary intention was to provide the student with resources that help create a “sound” environment thereby facilitating the student’s ability to read aloud the Hebrew text of Jonah with ever-increasing precision, ease, and fluency; a skill that takes some time to develop but one that contributes in significant (though sometimes intangible) ways to other apsects of the acquisition of Hebrew, e.g., learning and maintaining vocabulary, memorization and retention of paradigmes, increased reading speed.
Below you will find links to the text of Jonah divided up into passages. The text is taken directly from the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) in the form of scanned images. The audio files are in an MP3 format and so can be listened to with any standard media player. Note that two sets of files have been provided so that you can listened to the book of Jonah being read at normal speed and at a reduced speed (about 80% of normal). I would suggest that when you are simply listening to Jonah, be it active listening or passive listening (i.e., just having it going on in the background while you are doing something else), that you listen to it at normal speed. When, however, you are practicing your pronunciation and reading aloud, I would listen to it at reduced speed. By way of acknowledgement, the audio files in their original form are courtesy of Audio Scriptures International. I would recommend visiting their website to see the other audio and language resources they offer and perhaps making a small donation if you find their resources useful.
Audio Resources for יוֹנָה	Textual and Lexical Resources for יוֹנָה
Audio with Text — Reduced Speed Jonah 1:1–3 • 1:4–6 • 1:7–10 • 1:11–16 Jonah 2:1–3a • 2:3b–5 • 2:6–7 • 2:8–11 Jonah 3:1–4 • 3:5–10 Jonah 4:1–5 • 4:6–9 • 4:10–11 Audio — Regular Speed The Book of Jonah • Jonah 1–4 • or via Audio Scriptures International The Book of Jonah — by chapter • Jonah 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • or via Academy of Ancient Languages • Jonah • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • or via Audio Scriptures International The Book of Jonah — by passage • Jonah 1:1–3 • 1:4–6 • 1:7–10 • 1:11–16 • Jonah 2:1–3a • 2:3b–5 • 2:6–7 • 2:8–11 • Jonah 3:1–4 • 3:5–10 • Jonah 4:1–5 • 4:6–9 • 4:10–11 Other Audio Resources Navigating the Bible II — Jonah This website has a number of Hebrew texts being sung. Jonah can be listened to verse by verse by clicking on the audio icon next to each verse or the whole book at once by clicking on the audio icon in the title.	Hebrew Texts of Jonah Wideline Text — 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 Unpointed Text for pointing practice Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia — BHS (pp. 1031–33) The BHS is the current scholarly standard of the Hebrew text. Based primarily upon the Leningrad Codex, this version includes the Hebrew Massorah and a textual apparatus for making text-critical judgments. Leningrad Codex — L • Grayscale Folios (jpg) — 312v • 313r • 313v • Black and White for Printing • pdf Text Criticism for Jonah by Philip Poots This is quite a nice resource. This HTML file provides the complete textual apparatus of the BHS for the book of Jonah. By hovering over a word or symbol, a popup window translates the Latin abbreviations and identifies the textual witnesses. Greek Text of Jonah Rahlf's Septuagint — LXX Translation Resources for Jonah Translation Helps (updated weekly) The NET Bible — pdf • This is the New English Translation of Jonah, a translation available for online viewing and downloading at http://www.bible.org/netbible/ (make sure to also download the fonts so you can view the Hebrew and Greek characters http://www.bible.org/download/biblescript/bssw.htm). • One of the real strengths of the NET Bible are the extensive translator notes that include lexical and exegetical discussions of Hebrew words and idioms, etc. Lexical Resources for Jonah Einspahr’s Index to Brown, Driver, and Briggs Hebrew Lexicon Hebrew Word Lists • This document contains all of the Hebrew words that occur in the Book of Jonah along with their basic definitions and frequencies. This data has been layed out in three separate word lists, the only difference between the lists being the sorting order. The Structure of Jonah Hebrew Poetry and Jonah 2 Visually presents the overall bipartite structure of Jonah and more specifically of Jonah 2:3–10 in light of how it reflects the regularities of Hebrew poetry.

Jonah 1:1–3	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 1:1–3 Verses • 1:1 • 1:2 • 1:3

Jonah 1:4–6	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 1:4–6 Verses • 1:4 • 1:5 • 1:6

Jonah 1:7–10	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 1:7–10 Verses • 1:7 • 1:8 • 1:9 • 1:10

Jonah 1:11–16	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 1:11–16 Verses • 1:11 • 1:12 • 1:13 • 1:14 • 1:15 • 1:16

Jonah 2:1–3a	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 2:1–3a Verses • 2:1 • 2:2–3a

Jonah 2:3b–5	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 2:3b–5 Verses • 2:3b • 2:4 • 2:5

Jonah 2:6–7	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 2:6–7 Verses • 2:6 • 2:7

Jonah 2:8–11	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 2:8–11 Verses • 2:8 • 2:9 • 2:10 • 2:11

Jonah 3:1–4	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 3:1–4 Verses • 3:1 • 3:2 • 3:3 • 3:4

Jonah 3:5–10	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 3:5–10 Verses • 3:5 • 3:6 • 3:7 • 3:8 • 3:9 • 3:10

Jonah 4:1–5	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 4:1–5 Verses • 4:1 • 4:2 • 4:3 • 4:4 • 4:5

Jonah 4:6–9	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 4:6–9 Verses • 4:6 • 4:7 • 4:8 • 4:9

Jonah 4:10–11	Back to Audio Index
	MP3 Audio Files Passage • 4:10–11 Verses • 4:10 • 4:11

Online Resources

This section is still under construction but here is a link or two.

The Interactive Hebrew Text Project

This sight is still under construction, and only works with Microsoft Internet Explorer. At present the only texts available are parts of Deuteronomy and Jonah, but the semantic analysis is worth the effort of taking a look.

The Book of Jonah @ iTanakh

A few fulltext articles on Jonah at “iTanakh: Resources for Academic Study,” a site hosted by Pepperdine University.

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