Elijah or Elias (Hebrew: אליהו, Eliyahu; Arabic:إلياس, Ilyās) meaning “Yahweh is God” (Elijah = El (is) Yahweh, with El being one of God's names in the Bible, [1] from the same root as the name Allah) was a prophet in Israel in the 9th century BC. He appears in the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, Mishnah, Christian Bible, and the Qur'an. According to the Books of Kings, Elijah raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and ascended...