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  • 4 - Life Is a Miracle (2 Kings 1–8)

  • Daniel J. D. Stulac, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book:
    Life, Land, and Elijah in the Book of Kings
    Published online:
    19 November 2020
    Print publication:
    10 December 2020, pp 140-195

  • Summary

    Chapter 4 focuses on Elijah’s immortality, the doubling of his spirit, and Elisha’s role as Elijah’s prophetic heir in the narratives to follow. On paradigm with 1 Kings 17–19, the Elisha narratives depict Yhwh’s renewal of Israel’s land and people together. Moreover, these stories suggest that Elijah’s paradigmatic vitality – even in the prophet’s physical absence – outstrips the theological catastrophe (1 Kings 20–22) with which it contrasts. Thus, as a rhetorical extension of the prophet’s non-death portrayed in 2 Kings 1–2, 2 Kings 3–8 communicates a hope for Israel that proves crucial to the book’s overall message.