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In this original study, Dr. Davis argues that Ezekiel’s place in the history of prophecy is overdue for reassessment. As against current views that Ezekiel represents the collapse of prophetism into priestly and scribal forms, she argues that something radically different in prophecy begins with Ezekiel. Ezekiel represents the creation of a new literary idiom for prophecy. He develops an archival...

the caldron set on the fire which hovers in the background of ch. 11, and the choice cuts boiled, cooked through, and emptied out. With a change in emphasis from contents to container, it then becomes clear how from affording protection is the pot—filth- (or ‘rust-’, חלאה, 24:6, 11, 12) filled, boiled dry, and finally melted in the blaze (cf. 22:18). Ezekiel’s fluid symbol system allows the figure to gather into itself other images of what is happening within the city: most notably, the dross melted
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