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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...

Ezekiel’s vision of dry bones taking flesh and coming back to life at the command of God is the most familiar passage of this entire book. This vision has stimulated not only the speculations of theologians but also the imagination of artists and composers. It has inspired diverse cultural expressions from an American black spiritual to a political cartoon strip in a modern Israeli newspaper. This text describes one of the prophet’s ecstatic visions, but its
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