In one of the stories in the Bible's Book of Kings, Elijah flees to the wilderness and falls asleep under a juniper tree, exhausted and prepared to die. Suddenly an angel shakes him awake and ...

In the Old Testament reading, Elijah is on the run from the evil queen Jezebel and he goes out into the wilderness and asks God to let him die. Instead, God sends and angel who makes Elijah eat ...

But the emotional engagement evident in, for example, the haranguing exchanges between Elijah and the idolatrous ... was especially gratifying in the Angel’s soothing aria, “O rest in the ...