as a national resurrection. Both Hos 6:1–3 and Isa 26:19 hint at the idea of a national resurrection at least a century and a half before Ezekiel.66 Fifth, in addition to Block’s observations, one might also add Job 14:7–10, where Job observes that even the trees are resuscitated after they have been cut down. He contemplates the apparent incongruity of the fact that human life seems to end without hope of a revival. From this low point Job rises to a leap of faith in 19:25–27 in which he declares