Full Description
This volume includes nine essays that move Ezekiel's creative reuse of older materials to the foreground of discussion. The essays highlight the transformation of earlier texts, traditions, and theology in Ezekiel. They explore the diverse ways that Ezekiel reshapes Israel's legal texts, rituals, oracles against foreign nations, royal ideology, conception of the individual, remembrance of the past, and hope for the future. The work concludes by noting the subsequent transformation of Ezekiel in scribal transmission and in the New Testament.
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Foreword by Marvin A. Sweeney
Part One: Transformation of Antecedent Texts in Ezekiel
1. Transformation of Law: Ezekiel's Use of the Holiness Code (Leviticus 17-26) / Michael A. Lyons
2. Transformation of Pentateuchal Descriptions of Idolatry / Tova Ganzel
3. Transformation of Israel's Hope: The Reuse of Scripture in the Gog Oracles / William A. Tooman
Part Two: Transformation of Tradition and Theology in Ezekiel
4. Transformation of the Image / Jill Middlemas
5. Ezekiel and Moral Transformation / Paul M. Joyce
6. Transformation of History in Ezekiel / Thomas Krüger
7. Transforming the International status quo: Ezekiel's Oracles against the Nations / Paul R. Raabe
8. Transformation of Royal Ideology in Ezekiel / Daniel I. Block
Part Three: Transformation of Ezekiel in the Versions and New Testament
9. Transformation in Ezekiel's Textual History: Ezekiel 7 in the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint / Timothy Mackie
10. Transformation of Ezekiel in John's Revelation / Beate Kowalski
Index of Scripture
Index of Authors
