'Tis sunset on 10 Tishrei. Let's talk the Akītu-of-autumn; let's talk the Ninevene Prophet.
TheTorah point outs that its autumn cleansing-period exists on the Ugaritic plan for marking out the new year. This Tishrin new year is also the Seleucid reckoning, and (October) Byzantine. Iraqis instead planned their new year around Akitu in the month Nisan - for spring. The Pesach is likewise in Nisan. Maybe that's why Darius - the Persian - touted Pesach for the Jews of the Syene cataract; there is famously nothing of the Exodus in there.
Jonah did not preach in autumn, even if we assume the book fictional. He preached to Assyria just prior to Akitu, in spring.
Which brings me to John's Agnus Dei, who takes away sins. Luke doesn't go there; his Jesus is the Levitical Torah's ox. I wonder however after John, with his Passover lamb. Did John believe that Jesus was the atoning sacrifice of the Iraqi springtime Akitu? ... were the Johannines a protoSyriac sect?
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