But God uses the gourd plant to gently teach Jonah why God should have mercy on the 120,000 people of Nineveh, "not to mention the many cattle." In the face of Jonah's bad mood, ...

In the King James Version of The Holy Bible, Jonah finds himself scorching as the sun beats down upon his head. Jonah 4:6 reads: "And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over ...

Since Jonah built a hut to protect himself from the sun, why was it necessary for God to “prepare a gourd, and make it to come over Jonah that it might be a shadow over his head”?

God asks Jonah to meditate upon his feeling for the gourd, for all the interconnected layers of life. This feeling — this concern — this compassion, if you will, is what links God and Jonah.

Jonah sought refuge from the heat under the leaves of this gourd plant when later a worm came along and ruined it. The loss of the shady plant greatly upset the prophet.

University Archives & Special Collections proudly announces the recent acquisition of a first edition of Zora Neale Hurston’s debut novel “Jonah’s Gourd Vine” (1934). Hurston (January 7, 1891 – ...

What makes Cleveland Curator William Wixom overjoyed with his new sculptural group is that it also shows Jonah in idyllic repose under the gourd vine, and includes a freestanding orant, probably ...

Jonah had head trouble. It happens with some of God’s best people, and has been going on since God created Adam. Jonah was one of the early prophets, but the book written about him is more a ...

Jonah, the failed prophet, is the star of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which begins Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, at sundown. Writer Ted Roberts considers repentence and forgiveness and sacred gourds.

GREENFIELD — Jim Ballard had learned to grow a gourd with a long corkscrew neck. He had made friends and won ribbons at gourd shows. But he reached a point when he wondered what it all meant ...