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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...

holistic approach, have been even more conservative in attributing virtually all of chapters 40–48 to the exilic prophet.7 A related problem is the relationship of this section to the priestly material in the Pentateuch, on which see below. The opening notice dates the present visionary experience on the tenth day of the first month, twenty-five years after the deportation of Jehoiachin, and fourteen years after the fall of Jerusalem (40:1). If the preceding
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