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The First Deeds of Elisha
Two Miracles – 2 Kings 2:19-25
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, Volume 77, Issue 3, Aug 2023, p. 159 - 176
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- 01 Aug 2023
Abstract
Abstract
After the transmission of the spirit from Elijah to Elisha (2 Kgs 2:1-18), two small stories follow that have preoccupied the exegetes (2:19-22 and 2:23-25), partly because they are two remarkable miracles, partly because the two contrast remarkably strongly. The two stories form a diptych. They tell of the first deeds of Elisha. Do they function as legitimation of Elisha as a prophet, as many scholars claim? The stories contain different signs, suggesting that Elisha’s first deeds are too ambiguous, to see him, though following Elijah, as a legitimate prophet.
© Nico Riemersma