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This major work explores the message and meaning of Ezekiel, one of the longest and most difficult of the prophetic books. An introduction explains what is involved in reading a prophetic book, and how the book of Ezekiel was put together and structured. It looks at the form of speech used and discusses Ezekiel's author and those who transmitted, edited, and enlarged upon what he had to say. The...

introductions, one in the first person (v. 1), the other in the third person (vs. 2–3). Only the latter gives us a firm date: The fifth of the month: namely, in the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin, the word of Yahweh did indeed come to Ezekiel, son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal. Jehoiachin was the ill-fated king of Judah who, after reigning for a mere three months, was deported by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in 598 B.C., and spent the next
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