Hermeneutics, after languishing in benign neglect for years, has recently become a popular avocation among exegetes, or at least among academics. This is not the venue even to begin to summarize or evaluate all those discussions—or even consider more traditional hermeneutics.1 Obviously, to a large extent, exactly the same principles of interpretation apply to Ezekiel as to the rest of the Bible, and specifically to the OT. Every passage of Scripture