The Embarrassing Footnote
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10822688 |
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| Authors | Walter Brueggemann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-14 |
| Publication date | 1987-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theology Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5736 • E-ISSN: 2044-2556 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/004057368704400102 |
| OpenAlex | W2096395161 |
| Language | EN |
“At the beginning of the narrative [II Kings 6:8–23], Syria is a great threat. At the end of the narrative, Syria has gone home in peace. The intervention of Elisha which changed everything is unlikely. ... His decisive action consisted in a prayer and a feast. It is as though in inscrutable fashion, he has said to both warring kings, ‘I will show you a more excellent way,’ a way which stands outside royal definitions of reality and possibility. ... The more excellent way is about human hurt, under threat by Syria. It is about human amazement, that the mountains are filled with horses and chariots of fire. ... It is a tale of transformation in which the enemy is transformed into a festival partner who goes peaceably away.”
Action (physics) · Adversary · Ancient history · Art · Literature · Narrative · Prayer · Theology · African history and culture analysis · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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