The Book of Kings, Part 3 – Additional Resources

Suggested Reading:

• Robert R. Wilson, ed., Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980).
• Daniel C. Matt, Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation, Annotated edition (New Haven (Conn.) London: Yale University Press, 2022).
• Tamura Lomax, Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture (Durham London: Duke University Press Books, 2018).
• Keith Bodner, Elisha’s Profile in the Book of Kings: The Double Agent, 1st edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Additional Readings: (click to access)

• “Elijah” by Beth Glazier-McDonald
• “Elisha” by Sarah Cook
• “Miracle Stories in the Hebrew Bible” by Walter Brueggemann
• “Jezebel from an African-American Perspective” by Stacy Davis
• “Death of Jezebel” by Jennifer L. Koosed
• “How to Recognize a Biblical Prophet” by Corrine Carvalho
• “Kings Vs. Prophets” by Tim Mackie & Whitney Woollard 

Podcasts: (click to access)

• “A Chariot of Fire” (Third Sunday after Pentecost), Chapter, Verse, and Season: A Lectionary Podcast from Yale Bible Study

Artifacts: (click to access)

• Biblical Artifacts Found Inside the Trench: The Moabite Stone at Biblical Archaeology Society
• “What Does the Mesha Stele Say?” by André Lemaire at Biblical Archaeology Society
• “The Tel Dan Inscription” by Christopher Rollston at Bible Odyssey

Art: (click to access)

• Elijah defeats the Priests of Baal (ca. 244-245 C.E.),Dura-Europos, Syria
• Elijah in the desert (1818) by Washington Allston, Carnegie Arts of the United States
• Elijah Raising the Widow’s Son (1774) by Benjamin West, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Biblia Pauperum: Prophets slain by order of Jezebel (15th c.), British Museum
• Jezebel (n.d.) by Joseph Mills, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston