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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...

evidence collected by Landersdorfer, βααλ τετραμορφος [Paderborn: Schöningh, 1918], contrary to his intent, all bears on four-faced deities whose faces are the same; cf. the rationale given by Basil of Caesaria [fourth century] for the four-faced idol ascribed to Manasseh [J. Migne, Patrologia Graeca, CXXI, p. 228; cited by Landersdorfer, p. 7], “so that one might pray to the images from whatever side one approached” [ = Deuteronomy Rabba 2.20]—necessarily based on the idol’s showing the same aspect
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