Book of Jonah

== Jonah and the gourd vine ==

The Book of Jonah closes abruptly with an epistolary warning<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08497b.htm|title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jonah|website=www.newadvent.org}}</ref> based on the [[emblem]]atic trope of a fast-growing vine present in Persian narratives, and popularized in fables such as ''[[The Gourd and the Palm-tree]]'' during the Renaissance, for example by [[Andrea Alciato]].

[[St. Jerome]] differed<ref>citing Peter W. Parshall, "Albrecht Dürer's Saint Jerome in his Study: A Philological Reference," from The Art Bulletin 53 (September 1971), pp. 303–5 at http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/DurerSt.Jerome.htm</ref> with [[St. Augustine]] in his Latin translation of the plant known in Hebrew as {{lang|he|קיקיון}} ({{transliteration|he|qīqayōn}}), using {{lang|la|hedera}} (from the Greek, meaning "[[ivy]]") over the more common Latin {{lang|la|cucurbita}}, "[[gourd]]," from which the English word ''gourd'' ([[Old French]] {{lang|fro|coorde}}, {{lang|fro|couhourde}}) is derived. The Renaissance humanist artist [[Albrecht Dürer]] memorialized Jerome's decision to use an analogical type of Christ's [[The Vine|"I am the Vine, you are the branches"]] in his woodcut ''[[Saint Jerome in His Study (Dürer)|Saint Jerome in His Study]]''.