volume 12, issue 1, 2020, pages 24 – 42

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsCYNA9724
Published online: 2020-06-01
Published in print: 2020-06-30

Abstract: This paper will compare, first, the miracles performed by Elijah with those performed by Elisha. This comparison allows us to reconstruct “profiles” of both prophets. In the second part of this paper we will investigate which miracles made it into later texts, in particular, into the Second Temple writings and the synoptic gospels and which miracles were excluded from these writings. Based on this study we can reconstruct prototypes of miracle-makers and how they were transformed in the later periods.