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Endnote 6 - The Shunammite Woman

Sifre Deuteronomy, 177; Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 8, 8:5 and 10, 4:4.

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Endnote 5 - The Shunammite Woman

Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer, 33.

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Endnote 4 - The Shunammite Woman

See Rofé, Prophetical Stories, pp. 29–30.

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Endnote 3 - The Shunammite Woman

See R. Neff, “The Annunciation in the Birth Narrative of Ishmael,” Biblical Research 17 (1972), pp. 51–60; Robert Alter, “How Convention Helps us Read: The Case of the Bible’s Annunciation Type Scene,” Prooftexts 3 (1983), pp. 115–130.

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Endnote 2 - The Shunammite Woman

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Endnote 1 - The Shunammite Woman

See Alexander Rofé, The Prophetical Stories (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1988 [translated from the 2nd Hebrew edition, 1986]), pp. 27–33. Alone of all the critics I consulted, Rofé balances adulation for the prophet with credit to the woman who “overshadows Elisha” in vv. 28–30, holds him to moral obligations and thus helps bring him down to “human proportions.”

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Endnote 4 - The Jewish God Is Also the Christian God

Jacob Neusner, “Story-Telling and the Incarnation of God in Formative Judaism,” in The Incarnate Imagination, Essay in Theology, the Arts and Social Sciences in Honor of Andrew Greeley, A Festschrift, ed. Ingrid H. Shafer (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, 1988).