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Meir Sternberg, The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1985). p. 310.

It is difficult to say whether Hobbs finds the attributes he assigns to the woman appealing, or whether in speaking admiringly of Elisha’s characteristics, he subtly degrades the Shunammite.

Hobbs, 2 Kings, pp. 54–55.

Richard Nelson, First and Second Kings, Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching (Atlanta: John Knox, 1987), pp. 172–176.

Ernst Würthwein, Die Bücher der Könige. 1. Kön. 17–2. Kön. 25, Das Alte Testament Deutsch 11, 2 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984), pp. 293–294. See also Hugo Gressmann, Die älteste Geschichtschreibung und Prophetie Israels, Die Schriften des Alten Testaments 2, 1 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1921), p. 294.

Georg Hentschel, 2 Könige, Die Neue Echte Bible 11 (Wurzburg: Echte, 1985), p. 17.

Klaus Fricke, Das Zweite Buch von den Königen, Die Botschaft des Alten Testament 12:2 (Stuttgart: Calwer, 1972), p. 61. Compare Charles Conroy (1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, Old Testament Message 6 (Wilmington, DE: Glazier, 1983), p. 203, who writes that reading of these texts should concentrate on what they say about the Lord and his prophet.

“St. Caesarius of Arles, Sermons, Vol. 2”, in The Fathers of the Church, A New Translation (Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. of America, 1964), p. 227.

For a summary of these rabbinic sources, see Louis Ginzberg, Legends of the Jews, vol. 4, pp. 242–244.

Midrash, Shemot Rabbah 4:2.