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By the River Chebar: Historical, Literary, and Theological Studies in the Book of Ezekiel is unavailable, but you can change that!

To many readers, the book of Ezekiel is a hopeless riddle. We still find many features of the man and his message difficult and sometimes even shocking—if not offensive. The bizarre opening vision catches us off guard and tempts us to stop reading. However, if we persist, and if we meditate long and hard on individual utterances and sign actions, we will discover that despite the strangeness of...

they will need a lot of practical guidance along the way. In reality, once we get beyond the first chapter, the book of Ezekiel is no more difficult than Isaiah or Jeremiah or Hosea. But with sound pedagogical wisdom we must move from the known to the unknown. Unless congregations already have great confidence in their pastors, no series on Ezekiel should last longer than twenty-five or thirty weeks. But there should be enough theological and literary variety in this book to sustain interest this
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