Elijah Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == In arts and literature == * Perhaps the best-known representation of the story of Elijah is [[Felix Mendelssohn]]'s [[oratorio]] "[[Elijah (oratorio)|Elijah]]". The oratorio chronicles many episodes of Elijah's life, including his challenge to Ahab and the contest of the gods, the miracle of raising the dead, and his ascension into heaven. Composed and premiered in 1846, the oratorio was criticized by members of the [[New German School]] but nonetheless remains one of the most popular Romantic choral-orchestral works in the repertoire. * In his ethnography ''[http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HadziMuhamedovicWaiting Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape]'', anthropologist [http://www.bristol.ac.uk/school-of-arts/people/safet-hadzimuhamedovic/index.html Safet HadžiMuhamedović] discusses the [[syncretic]] harvest feast of Elijah's Day (''Ilindan/Aliđun''), shared by Christians and Muslims throughout [[Bosnia]].<ref>HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2018) Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.</ref> He focuses on the [[Field of Gacko]] in the [http://www.bosnianlandscapes.com/ southeastern Bosnian highlands]. Starting with a well-known Bosnian proverb about Elijah's two names "Ilija until noon - Alija after noon" (''Do podne Ilija, od podne Alija''), HadžiMuhamedović discusses the traditional and postwar waiting for Elijah, as well as the plethora of other characters he merges with (e.g. Slavic deity [[Perun]] and prophet [[Khidr]]). As the central trope in the book, the waiting for Elijah becomes the waiting for the restoration of home and cosmology after nationalist violence. The absence of Elijah is reminiscent of the one in Jewish rituals and HadžiMuhamedović discovers an imaginative form of political resistance in the waiting for Elijah's return. * In ''[[Orlando Furioso]]'', the English knight [[Astolfo]] flies up to the moon in Elijah's flaming chariot. * [[Elijah Rock]] is a traditional Christian [[Spiritual (music)|spiritual]] about Elijah, also sometimes used by Jewish youth groups. * "[[Go Like Elijah]]" is a song by the American rock-pop-jazz songwriter [[Chi Coltrane]]. * [[Lorenzetto]] created a statue of Elijah with assistance of the young sculptor [[Raffaello da Montelupo]], using designs by Raphael.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.efn.org/~acd/vite/VasariLorenz.html |title=Link to on-line biography of Lorenzetto from Vasari's ''Vite'' |publisher=Efn.org |access-date=5 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090222204918/http://efn.org/~acd/vite/VasariLorenz.html |archive-date=22 February 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''[[The Fifth Mountain]]'' by [[Paulo Coelho]] is based on the story of Elijah. * Christian metal band [[Disciple (band)|Disciple]] released the song "God of Elijah" on their 2001 album [[By God]]. The theme of the song is the challenge Elijah placed against Ahab between [[Baal]] and the god of Israel. * The roots-fusion band [[Seatrain (band)|Seatrain]] records, on the albums of the same name (1970), band member Peter Rowans song "Waiting for Elijah", alluding to Elijah's second coming. * From 1974 to 1976 [[Philip K. Dick]] believed himself to be [[Spirit possession|possessed]] by the spirit of Elijah.<ref>Rickman, Gregg. Philip K. Dick: The Last Testament. Long Beach, CA: Fragments West/The Valentine Press, 1985.</ref> He later included Elijah (as Elias Tate) in his novel ''[[The Divine Invasion]]''. * On [[Ryan Adams]]' 2005 album ''[[29 (album)|29]]'', the song "Voices" speaks of Elijah, alluding to Elijah being the prophet of destruction. *''[[Journeys With Elijah: Eight Tales of the Prophet]]'', book by Barbara Goldin and illustrated by [[Jerry Pinkney]] * In 1996, [[Robin Mark]] created a praise song entitled ''Days of Elijah''. * [[Cormac McCarthy]]'s post-apocalyptic novel ''[[The Road]]'' (2006) features an old man who ambiguously refers to himself as Ely. * [[Elijah Baley|Elijah]] ("Lije") is the name of the protagonist in three novels of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s [[Robot series (Asimov)|''Robot'' series]]. He is familiar with biblical stories and sometimes relates them in the narrative or in discussion with his [[R. Daneel Olivaw|robot partner]] who was built on a world devoid of religion. His wife is ironically named Jezebel. * The popular movie ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'' alludes to the William Blake poem [[And did those feet in ancient time]], which in turn alludes to the Elijah story. * Elijah was played by [[John Hoyt]] in the 1953 film ''[[Sins of Jezebel]]''. * A series of paintings by [[Clive Hicks-Jenkins]] around 2003–07 depicted Elijah being fed by a raven, inspired by fragments of a Tuscan altarpiece in [[Christ Church Picture Gallery]] in Oxford.<ref>Jacqueline Thalmann, 'Windows to Grace' in Simon Callow, Andrew Green, Rex Harley, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Kathe Koja, Anita Mills, Montserrat Prat, Jacqueline Thalmann, Damian Walford Davies and Marly Youmans, Clive Hicks-Jenkins (2011: Lund Humphries) {{ISBN|978-1-84822-082-9}}, pp. 81–97</ref> * Referenced in the song "It Was Written", by [[Damian Marley]], featuring [[Capleton]] and [[Drag-On]]. * Referenced in the movie ''[[The Book of Eli]]'', starring [[Denzel Washington]] in the title role as the man on a mission in a post-apocalyptic world to deliver the Bible for safe-keeping. * [[I. L. Peretz]] wrote ''The Magician'', which was illustrated by [[Marc Chagall]] in 1917, about Elijah.<ref name="WDL">{{cite news |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9615/ |title = The Magician |website = [[World Digital Library]] |year = 1917 |access-date = 30 September 2013 }}</ref> * Early in ''[[Moby-Dick]]'', Ishmael and Queequeg run into a scarred and deformed man named Elijah, a prophet (or perhaps merely a frightening stranger) who hints to them the perils of signing aboard Ahab's ship, the ''Pequod''. * Elijah appears in psychologist Carl Jung's "[[The Red Book (Jung)|Red Book]]" as one of central book heroes. * The song "Eliyahu" by Brooklyn folk-punk band [[Out Of System Transfer]] is about the story of Elijah through Passover. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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