The verse retelling of Jonah belongs with De Sodoma among the anonymous poems appended to the Heptateuchos, and no English translation of it was located. HOLLIS finds only a Latin-only Brepols database edition, Carmen de Iona propheta (CTLO, 2025), plus unrelated modern items that share the words of the title; no English version appears (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Carmen%20de%20Iona&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The text is in CSEL 23 together with the Heptateuchos and De Sodoma, as that volume's title page states (https://archive.org/details/cyprianigallipoe23cypr). White's Early Christian Latin Poets does not include it (https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/alma990085386220203941).
A short, sharply focused narrative poem on prophecy, repentance and the reluctance of a prophet, and one of the few Latin verse treatments of a minor prophetic book before the medieval period. Untranslated, it is known only to specialists who read CSEL.
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (CSEL, 1891); Internet Archive scan |
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| Commentary on Jonah & Daniel | Hanson, Anthony Tyrrell. "Commentary on Jonah & Daniel." [Madras] : Christain Literature Society, [1957]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159487077903941 |
| The seaman's preacher; consisting of nine short and plain discourses on Jonah's voyage. Addressed to mariners | Ryther, John, 1634?-1681. "The seaman's preacher; consisting of nine short and plain discourses on Jonah's voyage. Addressed to mariners." Cambridge [Mass.], Printed and sold by Wm. Hilliard ... 1806. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990067605290203941 |
| A fast sermon [on Jonah iv. 11] preach'd at Hackney, Novemb. the 3d. 1714. upon account of the present mortality of the cattle | Bates, John, 1670 or 1671-. "A fast sermon [on Jonah iv. 11] preach'd at Hackney, Novemb. the 3d. 1714. upon account of the present mortality of the cattle." London, M. Lawrence and S. Cliffe, 1714. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990043442670203941 |
| Queering the prophet : on Jonah, and other activists | "Queering the prophet : on Jonah, and other activists." London : SCM Press, 2023. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99157781779503941 |
| Six prophets for today : dramas on Jonah, Obadiah, Habakkuk, Hosea, Micah, Amos | Poovey, W. A. (William Arthur), 1913-. "Six prophets for today : dramas on Jonah, Obadiah, Habakkuk, Hosea, Micah, Amos." Minneapolis, Minn. : Augsburg Pub. House, c1977. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990007743310203941 |