Keith Bodner is Professor of Religious Studies at Crandall University in New Brunswick, after teaching for a number of years at Tyndale University College & Seminary in Toronto. He holds PhD degrees in biblical studies (University of Aberdeen) and English Literature (University of Manchester). He serves on the editorial board of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, and is a former section chair (Bakhtin and the Biblical Imagination) for the Society of Biblical Literature. His 2008 book 1 Samuel: A Narrative Commentary was awarded the R. B. Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, and his most recent work is Jeroboam's Royal Drama (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Bodner's detailed literary reading of the Elisha stories in 12 Kings succeeds in highlighting the existence of more coherence, repetition and continuity among the disparate Elisha narratives than most previous commentators have acknowledged.

• Prologue: Double Vision ; 1. The Apprentice ; 2. Incendiary Successions ; 3. Music and Maternity ; 4. Axes and Allies ; 5. Counter Intelligence ; 6. Throne Calls ; Postscript: Double Take

Keith Bodner is Professor of Religious Studies at Crandall University in New Brunswick, after teaching for a number of years at Tyndale University College & Seminary in Toronto. He holds PhD degrees in biblical studies (University of Aberdeen) and English Literature (University of Manchester). He serves on the editorial board of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, and is a former section chair (Bakhtin and the Biblical Imagination) for the Society of Biblical Literature. His 2008 book 1 Samuel: A Narrative Commentary was awarded the R. B. Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, and his most recent work is Jeroboam's Royal Drama (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Bodner's detailed literary reading of the Elisha stories in 12 Kings succeeds in highlighting the existence of more coherence, repetition and continuity among the disparate Elisha narratives than most previous commentators have acknowledged.

• Prologue: Double Vision ; 1. The Apprentice ; 2. Incendiary Successions ; 3. Music and Maternity ; 4. Axes and Allies ; 5. Counter Intelligence ; 6. Throne Calls ; Postscript: Double Take

Keith Bodner is Professor of Religious Studies at Crandall University in New Brunswick, after teaching for a number of years at Tyndale University College & Seminary in Toronto. He holds PhD degrees in biblical studies (University of Aberdeen) and English Literature (University of Manchester). He serves on the editorial board of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, and is a former section chair (Bakhtin and the Biblical Imagination) for the Society of Biblical Literature. His 2008 book 1 Samuel: A Narrative Commentary was awarded the R. B. Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, and his most recent work is Jeroboam's Royal Drama (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Bodner's detailed literary reading of the Elisha stories in 12 Kings succeeds in highlighting the existence of more coherence, repetition and continuity among the disparate Elisha narratives than most previous commentators have acknowledged.

• Prologue: Double Vision ; 1. The Apprentice ; 2. Incendiary Successions ; 3. Music and Maternity ; 4. Axes and Allies ; 5. Counter Intelligence ; 6. Throne Calls ; Postscript: Double Take