Characters of Elijah and Elisha and the Deuteronomic Evaluation of Prophecy

Roy L. Heller looks at the prophets Elijah and Elisha in the books of Kings charting a two-fold characterization that portrays these prophetic figures in both positive and negative lights. In the narratives of Kings Elijah and Elisha often parallel other prophetic figures from Israel''s history: they perform miraculous signs, they speak in the name of God, and they pronounce judgments upon the nat...