* Homiletic commentaries on the Old Testament: the Hexaemeron ( Six Days of Creation ); De Helia et ieiunio ( On Elijah and Fasting ); De Iacob et vita beata ( On Jacob and the Happy Life ); De Abraham ; De Cain et Abel ; De Ioseph ( Joseph ); De Isaac vel anima ( On Isaac, or The Soul ); De Noe ( Noah ); De interpellatione Iob et David ( On the Prayer of Job and David ); De patriarchis ( On the Patriarchs ); De Tobia ( Tobit ); Explanatio psalmorum ( Explanation of the Psalms ); Explanatio symboli ( Commentary on the Symbol ).

" Moved by a faith like that of Abraham ( Romans 4: 17, Hebrews 11: 19 ), Elijah prays that God might restore her son so that the veracity and trustworthiness of God's word might be demonstrated.

The prophets, patriarchs, and heroes of the Jewish scripture are also known in Christianity, which uses the Jewish text as the basis for its understanding of historic Judeo-Christian figures such as Abraham, Elijah, and Moses.

* Geoffrey Dennis, " Abraham ," " Elijah ," " Lailah ," " Sandalphon ," Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism Llewellyn, 2007.

It is recorded that Elijah Haines met Abraham Lincoln in 1847.

Of which the most important were Elijah de Vidas, Abraham Galante, Moses Galante, Hayyim Vital, Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukhim, Eleazar Azikri, Samuel Gallico, and an important kabbalist who studied with Cordovero for a short while in the 1560s, Mordechai Dato.

Charter members of the Academy are Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Bacon, James Bowdoin, Charles Chauncy, John Clark, David Cobb, Samuel Cooper, Thomas Cushing, Nathan Cushing, William Cushing, Tristram Dalton, Francis Dana, Samuel Deane, Perez Fobes, Caleb Gannett, Henry Gardner, Benjamin Guild, John Hancock, Joseph Hawley, Edward Augustus Holyoke, Ebenezer Hunt, Jonathan Jackson, Charles Jarvis, Samuel Langdon, Levi Lincoln, Daniel Little, Elijah Lothrup, John Lowell, Samuel Mather, Samuel Moody, Andrew Oliver, Joseph Orne, Theodore Parsons, George Partridge, Robert Treat Paine, Phillips Payson, Samuel Phillips, Jr., John Pickering, Oliver Prescott, Zedekiah Sanger, Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant, Micajah Sawyer, Theodore Sedgwick, William Sever, Stephen Sewall, David Sewall, John Sprague, Ebenezer Storer, Caleb Strong, James Sullivan, John Bernard Sweat, Nathaniel Tracy, Cotton Tufts, James Warren, Samuel West, Edward Wigglesworth, Joseph Willard, Samuel Williams, Abraham Williams, Nehemiah Williams, and James Winthrop.

The Qu ' ran states that Noah was inspired by God, like other Islamic prophets such as Ibrāhīm ( Abraham ), Ismā ' īl ( Ishmael ), Ishaq ( Isaac ), Ya ' qub ( Jacob ), Isa ( Jesus ), Ilyas ‘ ( Elijah ), Ayub ( Job ), Harun ( Aaron ), Yunus ( Jonah ), Daud ( David ) and Muhammad ( Mohammed ), and that he was a faithful messenger.

Quraysh is Nadhr (" son of ") ibn Kinanah ibn Khuzaimah ibn Madrakah ibn Ilyas ( Elijah ) ibn Madher ibn Nazar ibn Ma ' ad ibn Adnan ibn Add ibn Send ibn Napyot ibn Ishmael ibn Abraham ibn Azar ( Terah ) ibn Nahoor ibn Srooj ibn Ra ' o ibn Phaleg ibn Aber ibn Shaleh ibn Arpheckshad ibn Sam ibn Noah ibn Lamek ibn Motoshaleh ibn Edres ( Enoch ) ibn Yared ibn Mehlaiel ibn Qenan ibn Anosh ibn Sheeth ibn Adam

Religious and secular poets, it is true, often treated of such subjects as Abraham and Isaac and the near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah, Jacob and Joseph and the story of their lives, Moses and Aaron and the departure from Egypt, Joshua and the entrance into Canaan, Jeremiah and the fall of Jerusalem, Elijah the Prophet, etc.

From the year Beccafumi was engaged in continuing this pavement, he made very ingenious improvements in the technical processes employed, and laid down scenes from the stories of Ahab and Elijah, of Melchisedec, of Abraham and of Moses.

Elijah b. Solomon Abraham of Smyrna, in the beginning of the eighteenth century, published his " Shebet ' Musar ", which he divided into fifty-two chapters, one for each week.

On the other side in the Bosom of Abraham: " You have escaped from the Abyss and Hades, now you will cross over the crossing place ... to all the righteous ones, namely Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Enoch, Elijah and David ".

His principal teacher was Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg ; he was also taught by Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil, Ephraim ben Nathan, Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin ( Jacob ben Moses ha-Levi ), Abraham b. Baruch ( Meir of Rothenburg's brother ), and Dan Ashkenazi.

Other tables were compiled by Jacob ben Makir, Emanuel ben Jacob, Jacob ben David ben Yom-Ṭob Poel ( 1361 ), Solomon ben Elijah ( from the Persian tables ), and Abraham Zacuto of Salamanca ( about 1515 ).

* Elijah ben Abraham ( Re ' em ), Mizrahi, jewishencyclopedia. com

The most important Elijah de Vidas, Abraham Galante, Moses Galante, Hayyim Vital, Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukhim, Elazar ben Moshe Azikri, Samuel Gallico, and an important kabbalist who studied with Cordovero for a short while in the 1560s, Mordechai Dato.

The first and most important, was composed of eleven men, listed in this order: Hayyim Vital, Jonathan Sagis, Joseph Arzin, Isaac Kohen, Gedaliah ha-Levi, Samuel Uceda, Judah Mishan, Abraham Gavriel, Shabbatai Menashe, Joseph ibn Tabul, and Elijah Falko ( or Falkon ).

He was knighted ( the first singer to receive this honour ) in December of that year, after singing at Bristol, and sang Elijah at Hanley two days later.

From 1894 Santley devoted his time increasingly to teaching: between 1903 and 1907 he trained the Australian baritone Peter Dawson, taking him meticulously through Messiah, The Creation and Elijah.

In January 1907 he sang Elijah at Manchester Town Hall, having sung Messiah and Elijah every year there since 1858.

* 1986 – Elijah Kelley, American actor, singer, and dancer

The contest ends when Elijah's God consumes the offering which the Baal worshipers could not induce their god to touch, after which Elijah slaughters the Baal prophets ( 1 Kings 18: 17 – 40 ).

* 1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig.

* 1984 – Elijah Dukes, American baseball player

* 1976 – Elijah Blue Allman, American singer and guitarist ( Deadsy )

* 1959 – Elijah Jerry " Pumpsie " Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate.

* 1843 – Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American inventor and engineer ( d. 1929 )

* 1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.

* 1802 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist ( d. 1837 )

* 1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.

Ceremony, Portrait and Print, 1645 – 1661 ( 2000 ), shows how people compared Cromwell to King Ahab, King David, Elijah, Gideon and Moses, as well as Brutus and Julius Caesar.

* 1897 – Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader ( d. 1975 )

In his Comment on the Gospel of Matthew, which stems from a 6th century Latin translation, it is written: " In this place Jesus said Elijah was come and referred to John the Baptist it does not appear to me that by Elijah the soul is spoken of, lest I fall into the doctrine of transmigration, which is foreign to the Church of God, and not handed down by the apostles, nor anywhere set forth in the scriptures " ( ibid., 13: 1: 46 – 53 ).

Conversely, Elijah Delmedigo ( c. 1458 – c. 1493 ), in his Bechinat ha-Dat endeavored to show that the Zohar could not be attributed to Shimon bar Yochai, arguing that if it were his work, the Zohar would have been mentioned by the Talmud, as has been the case with other works of the Talmudic period, that had bar Yochai known by divine revelation the hidden meaning of the precepts, his decisions on Jewish law from the Talmudic period would have been adopted by the Talmud, that it would not contain the names of rabbis who lived at a later period than that of Simeon ; and that if the Kabbalah was a revealed doctrine, there would have been no divergence of opinion among the Kabbalists concerning the mystic interpretation of the precepts.

* October 7 – Elijah Muhammad, co-founder of the Nation of Islam ( d. 1975 )

* May 18 – Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor

* November 7 – American abolitionist and newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy is killed by a pro-slavery mob, at his warehouse in Alton, Illinois.

* November 7 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist ( b. 1809 )

* November 9 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist ( d. 1837 )

Examples include prophets, such as Elijah who performed miracles like the raising of a widow's dead son ( 1 Kings 17: 17 – 24 ) and Elisha whose miracles include multiplying the poor widow's jar of oil ( 2 Kings 4: 1 – 7 ) and restoring to life the son of the woman of Shunem ( 2 Kings 4: 18 – 37 ).

* Dust ( 2001 ) – Elijah

* Elijah Williams – former cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons, born in Milton, graduated from Milton High in 1993