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A much-neglected prophet, Ezekiel is nevertheless a key figure in Old Testament religion. Standing where he does, at the great crisis point of Israel’s history, the exile, he confronts the basic questions of whether the nation of Israel can survive, and whether it should. Ezekiel represents the priestly strand in Israel’s thinking, which lays such weight on the temple as the place of the presence...

The threat posed by Gog is not, therefore, a mundane, historical threat. The names of Gog’s associates, Cush, Put, Gomer and Beth-Togarmah, are none of them names of historic or actual enemies of Israel. The same may be said of the lands of Meshech and Tubal, of which Gog himself is said to be ‘prince’. Nor had the Persians, mentioned among Gog’s associates in 38:5, emerged as a threat up to Ezekiel’s lifetime. The names which can with any plausibility be assigned to specific geographical regions
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