The Two Prophets to Nineveh: Goodness and Severity in Jonah and Nahum

by James E McCarthy

120 pages, Paperback

Published July 30, 2025

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author, James E McCarthy, writes an easy-to-follow and scripturally sound book about the city of Nineveh, using the minor prophet books on the Bible, Jonah and Nahum. I wondered why I had never studied or heard these two books paired together.

While spending most of his ink on the Nineveh at the time of Jonah, the prophet, Mr McCathy more than adequately describes the situation around 100 years later, in the book of Nahum.

I agree with the summary on the back jacket: Study the two books together, and the reader is “offer(ed) a panoramic view of the whole character of God” - mercy and wrath, grace and law, salvation and annihilation.

[Robert Luff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely excellent treatment of the minor prophets Jonah and Nahum. McCarthy rightly connects the two books together because they are both written about the city of Nineveh -- the former concerning God's mercy towards them, and the latter concerning His justice upon them for their repeated violence and cruelty, and for throwing off His mercy. Together, the two short Old Testament books paint a holistic picture of God's character.