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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...

My Fascination with Ezekiel began in 1978, when it dawned on me that Ezekiel was the only prophet to fulfill his ministry entirely in a foreign land. I began to ask how his environment might have colored his ministry and the book that preserves his work. I discovered that links and influences are everywhere: in his geographic references, the akkadianisms and aramaisms in his vocabulary, his iconographic images, and his conceptual framework. This is just one of many reasons why the book is
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