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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