Nineveh's Partial Repentance

From violence before Jonah, to repentance from violence under Jonah's preaching, and back to violence a few decades later--this is an unconvincing portrait of thoroughgoing repentance.

Where does all this leave us? Nineveh believed in God, turned from her sin in some degree, but did not fully turn to God. In other words, her repentance was partial and incomplete.

--Daniel C. Timmer, A Gracious and Compassionate God: Mission, Salvation and Spirituality in the Book of Jonah (New Studies in Biblical Theology; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2011), 104.