In the Bible, Elijah is portrayed as a fierce defender of God to a disbelieving people. At the end of his life, rather than dying, he was brought directly up to God on a chariot.

Elijah at the tele-seder (RNS) — In a dark time, he promises the Messiah. The traditional seder plate prepared for Passover. Photo by Robert Couse-Baker ...

Elijah shows up, warns Ahab that God is sending a drought, and immediately disappears into the wilderness, taking refuge in a wadi, one of the riverbed canyons common in Israel.In an unexplained ...

Elijah is the prophet who will announce the coming of the Messiah in Jewish teaching. In the Bible, Elijah does not die — he is carried off to heaven in a chariot — and so the tradition ...

Christians across Jordan gathered today, Friday, for the annual Christian pilgrimage day at The Shrine of the Prophet Elijah (Mar Elias) in Ajloun Governorate, one of the Kingdom's key pilgrimage ...

ELIJAH'S CLIMACTIC confrontation on Mount Carmel with the prophets of Baal, the centerpiece of this week’s haftarah (I Kings 18:1-39), which ends in the Divine acceptance of the prophet’s ...

In today’s news roundup, the Bible’s Elijah is getting a movie; Will Patton, Mark O’Brien and Michael Masini get acting roles; and “Roma” will open the Savannah Film Festival.