Elisha and the Children: The Question of Accepting Prophetic

Title

Elisha and the Children: The Question of Accepting Prophetic Succession

Publication Type

Journal Article

Year of Publication

1992

Authors

Woods, Fred E. (Primary)

Pagination

47–58

Volume

32 Issue

3 URL

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/elisha-and-the-children-the-question-of-accepting-prophetic-succession/

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Bibliographic Citation

Abstract

This article discusses prophetic succession and Elisha's cursing of the young people who mocked him.

Parallelism

Chiasmus

Inverted Parallelism

Elisha (Prophet)

Prophetic Succession

Hebrew Writing Forms

Korah (Son of Izhar)

Ancient Literary Feature