A Bold Defense of the Truthfulness of the Old Testament Rich insights from one of the world’s best Bible commentators Historical context blends well with the devotional aspects of the book The third volume in the author’s popular Remarkable… series The collection of books known as the Bible contains history’s greatest stories. One of the most intriguing – and controversial – is the Book of Jonah. Tucked-in near the end of the Hebrew scriptures, the book chronicles the almost-legendary story of a prophet sent to preach to one of the ancient world’s most brutal regimes, Assyria. And that is precisely the problem with Jonah; was he real? Or, was he some mixture of myth and truth?