G — Biblically Based Apocryphal Works

Chapter 24

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Three minute fragments reproduce the Hebrew text of Kings ii, 14— with paraphrastic supplements. Only fr. can be partly reconstructed and translated. The opening words 'And Elisha went up' are without biblical parallel. For the editio princeps, see J. Trebolle, DJD, XXII, 305—9. Fr.. And Elisha went up. When the sons of the prophets who were over at Jericho saw him over against them, they said, The spirit of Elijah rests over Elisha. And they came to meet Elisha, and bowed to the ground before him. And they said to him, Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; pray, let them go, and seek your master; it may be that the spirit of the Lord has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.