Prophet Is the People: An Answer to "Why Elijah?" in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Literature

Alicia R. Hein, Ph.D. (2024), University of St. Andrews, researches at the University of Tübingen, Germany, with interests in Second Temple scribal practices, literary allusion, and Hebrew Bible ethics of war.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations1 Introduction and Approach to the Texts1 Introduction2 Overview of Analysis3 Literature Review4 Methodology5 Conclusion2 Elijah and the Endangered Son in Kings1 Introduction2 The Prophet Like Moses3 Endangered Entities in the Elijah Cycle4 The Rest of the Cycle: Judgement, Remnant, and Survival5 Conclusion: Elijah as Prophet and People3 Elijah and the Messenger in Malachi1 Introduction2 Malachi’s Messenger3 Elijah as Malachi’s Messenger4 Elijah’s Coming as Conclusion to the Law and the Prophets5 Conclusion: Elijah as Past and Future4 Elijah and the Hope of Second Temple Texts1 Introduction to the Texts2 Elijah in Ben Sira/Sirach3 Elijah in Other Second Temple Texts4 Conclusion: a Conflated Expectation5 Elijah, John, and Jesus in the Gospels1 Introduction2 The Synoptics3 The Fourth Gospel4 Conclusion: the Story Continues6 Elijah and the Believers in the Epistles1 Introduction2 Pauline Literature3 James4 Conclusion: God’s People as Prophet and Remnant7 Elijah and the Witnesses in Revelation1 Introduction2 Lenses of Analogy3 The Prophet and the People: Ezekiel 37 and Ezekiel 2–34 The Prophet and the People at the Beginning and the End5 Conclusion: a Remnant Preserved and Restored8 ConclusionBibliographyIndex of AuthorsIndex of References