adding ואין קשב as a new element to intensify the stress on Baal’s silence. It is most noteworthy that nowhere in vv. 26–29 does the writer explicitly state that Baal is dead. Rather, the reader must reach that conclusion on his own, through the references to the lack of a voice and the lack of an answer, and through Elijah’s mocking words in v. 27. Since the reader must formulate on his own the conclusion that Baal is dead, the scene ultimately has a more powerful effect than if there had been a