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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...

and Jeremiah’s generation, ‘making sense’, some sort of sense, was a prerequisite of their own survival. As individuals, they had lost everything, except for what a man might put in a bundle on his shoulder and carry out in the dark. As a nation, they had lost everything that they thought of as essential to their nationhood: king, temple, independence; and above all, they had lost their land. They no longer had a place where they belonged. The book of Ezekiel is produced by people trying to cope
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