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    Elijah
                
                                    
                        Episode 3 of 5
                    
                            
            Clive Lawton tells the story of Elijah, a miracle-working, thundering wild-eyed and somewhat anti-social itinerant.
In the third of his series of off-beat Biblical portraits, Clive Lawton tells the story of Elijah, a miracle-working, thundering wild-eyed and somewhat anti-social itinerant. Elijah is very much the prototype Old Testament prophet and only one of two people in the Jewish Bible who, strangely, doesn't die. As a result, he is thought to be almost still hovering around, ready to intervene when the right time comes. Jews open their doors to Elijah each Passover and pour him a cup of wine. He has a special seat at every circumcision and they sing of him at the end of every Sabbath.
Producer: Mark Savage.
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            Wed 14 Aug 2013
            13:45
        
        ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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- Wed 14 Aug 2013 13:45ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4