and its interpretation, how is a vision of events a metaphor for them? In Ezekiel’s other visions he sees events as stylized drama, for which the interpretation, if any, specifies the normally seen equivalent; here that equivalent is explicitly the future opening of Israel’s graves. Thus if resurrection is metaphor it must be that in both vision and interpretation, again leaving nothing for which it can be metaphor. However such questions are to be resolved, the promised return itself can be construed