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James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale. He was found still living days later in the stomach of the whale, which was dead from harpooning. The story originated of an anonymous form, began to appear in American newspapers.
Father Mapple is a fictional character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851). A former whaler, he has become a preacher in the New Bedford Whaleman's Chapel. Ishmael, the narrator of the novel, hears Mapple's sermon on the subject of Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale but did not turn against God.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The New International Version translates the passage as:
Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré, in La Grande Bible de Tours. Jonah is the central character in the Book of Jonah, in which God commands him to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it "for their great wickedness is come up before me," [10] but Jonah instead attempts to flee from "the presence of the Lord" by going ...
“I was completely inside (the whale); it was completely black,” said Michael Packard as people compare the New England man to Jonah and the whale. 'I was completely inside': Lobster diver ...
After being cast from the ship, Jonah was swallowed by a whale. He resided in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights. [7] Completely distraught he prayed to God and promised to do what he was asked. [8] God commanded the whale to vomit Jonah. [9] The story inspired countless paintings about Jonah and the whale. [10]
'In the Whale,' the story of Provincetown lobster diver Michael Packard's life and his 30 seconds in a humpback's mouth, continues to sell out shows. ... No one would ever call Packard a cautious man.
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