Just a thought or two on this and then back to work…
Need to put this on “paper…”
The Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall take away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and prop (all supplies of bread and water):
Famine – 2 Kings 2.38-44; 6.25-33
Hero and warrior, judge and prophet, fortune-teller and elder,
Oh come on… that is just too easy…
The captain of fifty and the nobleman, counselor, skilled magician, and expert charmer.
Captain of fifty – 2 Kings 1.9-15
I will make striplings their princes; the fickle shall govern them,
Ahab anyone?
And the people shall oppress one another, yes, every man his neighbor. The child shall be bold toward the elder, and the base toward the honorable.
She-bears – 2 Kings 2.24
When a man seizes his brother in his father’s house, saying, “You have clothes! Be our ruler, and take in hand this ruin!” –
Then shall he answer in that day: “I will not undertake to cure this, when in my own house there is no bread or clothing! You shall not make me ruler of the people.” (NAB)
This part is tricky – so I’ll come back to it.
The first part of Isaiah is what, 8th century BCE? The Elijah-Elisha narratives are exile or after? That gives it time and accessibility.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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