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Ezekiel 38–48: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Stephen L. Cook offers an accessible translation and interpretation of the final sections of Ezekiel. These chapters, the most challenging texts of scripture, describe the end-time assault of Gog of Magog on Israel and provide an incredible visionary tour of God’s utopian temple. Following the approach of Moshe Greenberg, the author of the preceding Anchor Yale Bible commentaries on Ezekiel, this...

of the Global North. It did not, of course, originate there. Rather, worldviews centering on a literal belief in an imminent judgment and deliverance of the world occur across history and cultures among groups and movements that anthropologists term “millennial” (or “millenarian”). (For a discussion of millennialism, see Grabbe 1989 and Cook 1995a.) Ezekiel 40–48, the vision of the utopian temple and land, is filled with spatial organization and territorial rhetoric. The focus on spatiality and creation-order
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