God Saves: Lessons from the Elisha Stories

By Rickie Dale Moore

Book Overview

This fresh examination of the Elisha narratives found in 2 Kings 5, 6.8-23 and 6.24-7.20 leads to a new interpretation of them as didactic salvation stories set against the Aramaean military threat to ninth-century Israel. Moore shows how an ingenious literary artistry converges powerfully with contextual dynamics to explicate the surprising and subtle saving actions of Yahweh in a troubled time. Each of the stories offers its own fresh disclosure of the time-worn tradition expressed in Elisha's own name: 'God saves'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567158659
• ISBN13: 9780567158659
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"