As scholar Daniel C. Matt '72, MA'75, PhD'78, shows in his new book, "Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation," Elijah starts out in the Bible's Book of Kings as an impassioned firebrand whose ...

The biblical story of the prophet Elijah is interesting, ... There are only 139 verses dealing with Elijah. Was Elijah good as most Bible readers, Jewish and non-Jewish, imagine?

Elijah at the tele-seder (RNS) — In a dark time, he promises the Messiah. The traditional seder plate prepared for Passover. Photo by Robert Couse-Baker ...

In the Bible, Elijah is portrayed as a fierce defender of God to a disbelieving people. At the end of his life, rather than dying, he was brought directly up to God on a chariot.

After Elijah leaves the wadi, which has dried up in the drought, the prophet begs some bread and water from an old woman. She apologizes that she has no food left to give him.

Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation Daniel C. Matt. Yale Univ, $26 (248p) ISBN 978-0-300-24270-6 ...

Referring to the Prophet Elijah hearing God's "still, small voice," as the story is recounted in the Bible, Clinton continued, "When we get discouraged and don't know if we can believe anymore, we ...

One of the classic examples of loneliness in the Bible was the experience of the prophet Elijah in 1 Kings 19. ... Elijah could not know at this point, but he would not die in the wilderness.

Elijah is the prophet who will announce the coming of the Messiah in Jewish teaching. In the Bible, Elijah does not die — he is carried off to heaven in a chariot — and so the tradition ...

It is Elijah, the only Jewish figure in the Bible who never died, but who instead alighted to heaven in a fiery chariot when his life’s work on Earth was done, who someday will return to Earth ...