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Prophet Like Moses?

A Narrative-Theological Reading of the Elijah Cycle

Prophet Like Moses?

A Narrative-Theological Reading of the Elijah Cycle

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Publisher: Send The Light
ISBN: 9781842275337
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 01/04/2011
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
In evaluating Elijah as a prophet after the Mosaic paradigm, Dr Havilah Dharamraj proposes a radically different schema for interpreting what is one of the most dramatic and difficult texts in the Old Testament, namely, the earthquake-wind-and-fire theophany at Horeb (1 Kings 19). Since rabbinic times, the resonance between the Moses stories and the Elijah stories has been regularly noted. Taking into account that Deut. 18:18 promises Israel a 'prophet like Moses', this resonance compels an evaluation of Elijah, holding Moses as the benchmark. Here, scholarship struggles with a paradox. At Horeb Elijah fails in the critical prophetic task of intercession. Yet, his service as prophet is affirmed beyond doubt in his iconic whirlwind-and-chariots-of-fire exit. How are these to be reconciled? Is Elijah a prophet of Mosaic fibre or not? This work offers a strikingly different approach to the Elijah stories. Dharamraj employs the narrative critical method to offer a close reading of the text. Such an approach opens up intriguing possibilities in interpretation. Here, her analysis of the dramatic and difficult discourse of the earthquake-wind-fire- 'still, small voice' theophany at Horeb is notable. So also, is the case she carefully builds for whether Elijah emerges as the hoped-for 'prophet like Moses'.

Havilah Dharamraj

Havilah Dharamraj (Ph.D., University of Durham) is Professor and Head of Department of Old Testament at the South Asia Institute for Advanced Christian Studies in Bangalore, India. She is the author of A Prophet Like Moses? (Paternoster, 2011)