Was Jonah swallowed by a whale?

[trashleg]

NinjaguyDan said:

trashleg said:

famousringo said:

From what I've heard, this is a matter of mistranslation, just like how killing poisoners somehow got transformed into killing witches.

There's an old Aramaic idiom that to be preoccupied by a dilemma is to be "in a fish." The modern turn of phrase would be to be "in a pickle."

So at some point, Jonah being "in a large fish" for three days evolved into being swallowed by a whale for three days. It would be like me writing in my journal how I was really in a big pickle being transformed by two thousand years of copying and translation into "And woe betide, famousringo was transformed into an enormous cucumber." Language is a tricky thing.

wasnt there anoter mistranslation about a camel being passed through the eye of a needle, wher the word for camel got confused wth the word for thread or something? idk, i've never read the whole bible  but  its just what i heard.

Obnoxiusly rich and selfish people who want to call themselves "Christian" would have you believe that.

would have me believe what - that it is, or isnt, a mistranslation?  what does being rich have to do with anything?