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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...

Gruenwald has remarked that this procedure could be a means of avoiding the immediate sight of divine beings (Apocalyptic and Merkavah Mysticism [Leiden/Köln: E. J. Brill, 1980], p. 135), and M. Idel has shown that such a technique was practiced by mystical visionaries down through the Middle Ages (Sinai [Hebrew] 86 [5640/1980], 1–7). the heavens opened. A unique expression; elsewhere God is said to “incline” or “rend” the heaven in order to descend and reveal himself (2 Sam 22:10; Isa 63:19). a
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