Ezekiel (Old Testament Guides)

✍ Scribed by Henry McKeating

• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 129
• Series: Old Testament Guides
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A much-neglected prophet, Ezekiel is nevertheless a key figure in Old Testament religion. Standing where he does, at the great crisis point of Israel's history, the exile, he confronts the basic questions, can the nation survive?, and, should it? Ezekiel represents the priestly strand in Israel's thinking, which lays such weight on the temple as the place of the presence of God. How can the nation be sustained when it has been deprived of its traditional place of worship? Ezekiel's reply is that the presence of God is still available, even in the land of exile, but that the presence is yet to be restored to its proper place in Jerusalem. Like the other volumes in the Old Testament Guides series, this compact study of Ezekiel will be much appreciated by the student turning to the study of the prophet for the first time.>

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 8
Select List of Commentaries......Page 10
1. Introduction......Page 12
2. The Structure of the Book......Page 16
3. Ezekiel the Man......Page 23
4. The History of Ezekiel Criticism: 1900–1950......Page 31
5. The History of Ezekiel Criticism: The 1950s to the Present Day......Page 44
6. The Dating Series......Page 63
7. The Theology of Ezekiel......Page 74
8. The Book of Ezekiel and Other Prophetic Traditions......Page 93
9. The Final Vision: Ezekiel 40–48......Page 100
10. Messianism in the Book of Ezekiel......Page 106
11. The nāśî' in Ezekiel......Page 111
12. Gog and Magog: Ezekiel 38–39......Page 115
Index of References......Page 124
H......Page 128
Z......Page 129