The notion that kings reign by divine right, quite independent of the people's will, goes back to those Old Testament days when kings were called "God's anointed," or His representatives on earth..
When i began reading the Bible earnestly in my early teenage years, I always struggled with the Old Testament. I was never sure understood it. I like the stories. They were full of character with w…
The Elijah-Elisha narrative (1 Kgs 16:29 - 2 Kgs 13) is the most underestimated text in the Bible. Far from being a disparate collection, it is actually a carefully crafted double drama that both m…