greater love for kikayon providing him shade than for all the people in Nineveh.[111]

The Book of Jonah also employs elements of literary absurdism;[24] it exaggerates the size of the city of Nineveh to an implausible degree[1][24] and incorrectly refers to the administrator of the city as a "king".[1][24] According to scholars, no human being could realistically survive for three days inside a fish,[1] and the description of the livestock in Nineveh fasting alongside their owners is "silly".[2