By Rick Dale Moore

This clean exam of the Elisha narratives present in 2 Kings five, 6.8-23 and 6.24-7.20 results in a brand new interpretation of them as didactic salvation tales set opposed to the Aramaean army probability to ninth-century Israel. Moore indicates how an creative literary artistry converges powerfully with contextual dynamics to explicate the spectacular and sophisticated saving activities of Yahweh in a afflicted time. all of the tales deals its personal clean disclosure of the time-worn culture expressed in Elisha's personal identify: 'God saves'.

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Long did not take this route, but before proceeding with his work, it would be helpful to consider the independent efforts of 1 Long, 'Recent Field Studies in Oral Literature and the Question of Sitz im Leben', Semeia 5 (1976), pp. T. Criticism', VT 26 (1976), pp. 187-98. 2 'Oral Literature and the Question of Sitz im Leben', p. 35. 1. Classifying the Elisha Stories 55 one scholar who did take such a route. In his book-length study of the Micaiah narrative (1 Kgs 22), Simon J. 3 Yet recognizing narrative function was seen by DeVries to depend upon considerations of both content and form, and context as well.

Eissfeldt, Bentzen, and Fohrer did this, and with specific reference to the Elisha stories in 2 Kings 5-7 it meant locating the given stories either between legend and historical narrative or else in a prophetic sub-class of legend. Whereas Gunkel's classifications were related and applied more flexibly, it was still his basic classifications and descriptions which were being observed. With respect to the Elisha stories, the work of Eissfeldt, Bentzen, and Fohrer stands in obvious continuity with and dependence upon the work of Gunkel.

Classifying the Elisha Stories 55 one scholar who did take such a route. In his book-length study of the Micaiah narrative (1 Kgs 22), Simon J. 3 Yet recognizing narrative function was seen by DeVries to depend upon considerations of both content and form, and context as well. 5 Considerations of context also informed DeVries's classification in a decisive and pervasive way. 6 DeVries, not unlike Long, saw challenges to prophetic authority as a major impetus behind the recounting and recording of stories about prophets.

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