Elijah is a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to the Hebrew Bible, Elijah lived in the ninth century B.C., performed miracles, and is fated to return some time before the end of days.
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Elijah Term Timeline in Ulysses
The timeline below shows where the term Elijah appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Episode 8: Lestrygonians
...passes a candy shop, and then a YMCA man gives him a pamphlet announcing that “Elijah is coming”—the evangelist John Alexander Dowie is coming to Dublin. Bloom thinks these new churches...
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Episode 12: Cyclops
...with one final parody, in which a new voice compares Martin Cunningham’s departing car to Elijah’s chariot, ascending to heaven.
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Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun
...for a brothel and notice the Dowie pamphlet that Bloom threw into the River Liffey: “Elijah is coming! Washed in the blood of the Lamb.” The episode ends with several vulgar...
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Episode 15: Circe
...and a two-headed octopus starts twirling around and talking in a Scottish accent. The prophet Elijah starts speaking about the end of the world in a slick American accent and yelling...
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Episode 17: Ithaca
...day’s unusual Ascot Gold Cup, and thinks about how he threw away the pamphlet about Elijah in the morning just before Bantam Lyons asked him for a tip about the races....
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