Elijah the Prophet

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• Elijah (Elijah the Tishbite) — (fl. 9th cent BCE)    Israelite prophet. He prophesied during the reigns of Ahab and Ahaziah. He attempted to restore the purity of the worship of the God of Israel when Ahab s wife, Jezebel, introduced the cult of Baal into the country. In a… …   Dictionary of Jewish Biography

• Elijah (oratorio) — Elijah, in German: Elias, is an oratorio written by Felix Mendelssohn in 1846 for the Birmingham Festival. It depicts various events in the life of the Biblical prophet Elijah, taken from the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings in the Old Testament.… …   Wikipedia

• ELIJAH, CHAIR OF — (Heb. כִּסֵּא שֶׁל אֵלִיָּהוּ, kisse shel Eliyyahu), a special chair placed at the right of the sandak (godfather) at the circumcision ceremony and left unoccupied. The chair is symbolically meant for Elijah the prophet, called The Angel of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• The Word of the Lord Brought to Mankind by an Angel — is subtitled, A warning to all people on the second coming of Jesus Christ, revelations on the building of the temple, and instructions to the Church of Christ: The Lord has spoken and revealed his purpose by the mouth of his servant John the… …   Wikipedia

• Elijah — This article is about the prophet in the Hebrew Bible. For other uses, see Elijah (disambiguation). Prophet Elijah Elijah reviving the Son of the Widow of Zarephath by Louis Hersent Prophet, Apostle to Ah …   Wikipedia

• Elijah's chariot — chariot of fire in which Elijah the prophet ascended to heaven …   English contemporary dictionary

• ELIJAH — (Heb. אֵלִיָּהוּ, also אֵלִיָּה), Israelite prophet active in Israel in the reigns of ahab and Ahaziah (ninth century B.C.E.). In the opinion of some scholars, the designation the Tishbite of the inhabitants of Gilead (I Kings 17:1) supports the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Elijah — • Old Testament prophet Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Elijah     Elijah     † Catholic E …   Catholic encyclopedia

• ELIJAH, APOCALYPSE OF — ELIJAH, APOCALYPSE OF, apocryphal work. In the Stiehometry of Nicephorus, a Christian list of biblical books and Apocrypha generally dated to the middle of the sixth century, there is the item, Of the Prophet Elias, 316 stichoi. Similar… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Elijah Muhammad — speaking in 1964. Leader of the Nation of Islam In office 1934 – February 25, 1975 …   Wikipedia

• Elijah Bashyazi — Elijah ben Moses Bashyazi of Adrianople or Elijah Bašyazi (in Hebrew, Eliyahu ben Moshe ben Menahem ) (born c. 1420 in Adrianople ndash; died 1490 in Adrianople) was a Karaite Jewish hakham of the fifteenth century. After being instructed in the… …   Wikipedia