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Beyond the River Chebar: Studies in Kingship and Eschatology in the Book of Ezekiel is unavailable, but you can change that!

To many readers the book of Ezekiel is a hopeless riddle. However, if we take the time to study it, we will discover that despite the strangeness of the man and his utterances this is the most clearly organized of the major prophetic books. If we persist, we will also discover that from a rhetorical perspective, this priestly prophet knew his audience; he recognized in Judah’s rebellion against...

Opinions on why Ezekiel avoided the term מֶלֶךְ (“king”) when speaking of Israel’s kings vary. Since outside this book references to the office of נָשִׂיא (“prince”) occur most frequently in the narratives concerning Israel’s wandering in the desert, where leaders of tribes and clans were supposedly apolitical sacral figures, some suggest that by using this term the prophet was trying to reestablish this role as primary also for the monarch.10 Others argue that Ezekiel prefers נָשִׂיא over מֶלֶךְ
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