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A New Heart: A Commentary on the Book of Ezekiel is unavailable, but you can change that!

The prophet Ezekiel speaks passionately of God’s fidelity even in the face of his people’s infidelity, defending the destruction of Jerusalem as God’s judgment while promising a new experience of the divine presence that will bring with it “a new heart” for God’s people. Bruce Vawter and Leslie J. Hoppe illuminate the profound theological themes of Ezekiel, making him accessible to people today...

of the ruah (the wind/breath/Spirit) that hovered over the chaotic waters and infused order and life into inert matter (Gen. 1:2). In contrast to the account of the creation of Adam in Genesis, here the “four winds” bring the breath of life. In Genesis God does this directly. The use of the same Hebrew word with its wide semantic field provides a thread that weaves together this passage in Hebrew. This is not possible in translation when different English words attempt to convey the precise connotation
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