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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rickie Moore
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: OTSSA 2018-12-01
Series:Old Testament Essays
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1010-99192018000300020&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en