Perhaps a reference to 2 Kings 13:20-21? - Jonathan Skolnik, UMass Amherst
Quoting Peter Davies <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear colleagues
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> I'm looking for the source of the quotation that forms the title of
> the sequence of three texts by Elie Wiesel that appeared in German
> in 1962 (complete with a foreword by Martin Walser):
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> Elie Wiesel, 'Die Nacht zu begraben, Elischa' (Munich: Bechtle,
> 1962), tr. Curt Meyer-Clason
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> This is clearly a quotation, possibly Biblical, but I haven't been
> able to locate it.
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> All assistance gratefully received!
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> best wishes
> Peter
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