Finding the Spirit of Elijah in the Story of Elisha and the Lost Axe Head: 2 Kings 6:1-7 in the Light of 2 Kings 2
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1 janvier 2018
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Elijah Elisha Sons of the Prophets 1 & 2 Kings 2 Kings 2 2 Kings 6 1-7 Generational SuccessionSujets proches
Pneumatology (Philosophy) Pneumatology (Theology) Pneuma Generation Procreation Pangenesis Amphimixis Seers Minor prophets Prophethood Papers Engineering--Materials Engineering materials Industrial materials Erudition Scholarship Scholarship LearningCiter ce document
Rickie Moore, « Finding the Spirit of Elijah in the Story of Elisha and the Lost Axe Head: 2 Kings 6:1-7 in the Light of 2 Kings 2 », Old Testament Essays, ID : 10670/1.dpbgwv
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Against a long-standing trend in biblical scholarship to demean and diminish the significance and purpose of the Elisha story of the lost axe head in 2 Kings 6:1-7, this paper shows this story's strategic purpose in relation to a central theological theme of the Elijah-Elisha complex and the entire Kings corpus. By pointing out the striking literary parallels and connections between this Elisha story and the story of Elisha's receiving the mantle of Elijah in 2 Kings 2, together with this latter story's central thematic role not only in the Elijah-Elisha materials but in the Kings narrative as a whole, the story of the lost axe head reveals the pivotal divine purpose of transacting spiritual succession from one generation to the next.