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Ezekiel 1–20: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Ezekiel 1–20, the first of two volumes of commentary on the Scripture attributed to the third major Old Testament prophet, Moshe Greenberg uses accessible prose to explain Ezekiel’s ecstatic, erratic, almost incomprehensible otherworldly visions and prophecies. One of this century’s most respected biblical scholars, Greenberg translates the text, identifies the critical issues raised by the...

Contemporary and other ancient records, biblical and extrabiblical, tend to corroborate the testimony of the dates in Ezekiel that its contents fall between 593 and 571 B.C.E. Events of those years are reflected in the prophecies, no event after 571 is reflected in them, and any that precedes 593 is clearly past. By the beginning of the sixth century, Babylonia under Nebuchadnezzar II (605–562) had gained the upper hand over Egypt in the struggle for control
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