Fact checked by Karen CilliThe name Elijah goes back to the Bible's Old Testament and derives from a Hebrew phrase meaning “Jehovah is my God.” The original, biblical Elijah was a prophet known for ...

Understanding the Hebrew Bible: A Guide for the Perplexed Elliot Rabin. Ktav Publishing House, $29.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-88125-856-1 ...

Sunday’s readings contain an interesting illustration of the way that the Bible can use numbers. In the Old Testament reading, Elijah is on the run from the evil queen Jezebel and he goes out ...

As scholar Daniel C. Matt '72, MA'75, PhD'78, shows in his new book, "Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation," Elijah starts out in the Bible's Book of Kings as an impassioned firebrand whose ...

What does the Bible tell us about Elijah? He first appears as a zealous prophet for God. There’s something wild and primeval about him. He’s totally committed to monotheism.

In the Bible, Elijah does not die (he goes up to heaven in a chariot – see 2 Kings, chapter 2). Therefore he is the prophet our tradition assumes will return to announce the coming of the Messiah.

The copy is a handwritten adorned copy of the Guide of the Perplexed in which Maimonides interpreted the Hebrew Bible. The purported portrait of Maimonides from which all modern portraits are derived.