After Ezekiel Essays on the Reception of a Difficult Prophet [Paperback]

Ezekiel has long been considered the most difficult of all the prophetic books to understand. The prophet's bizarre visions, extraordinary behaviour, and extravagant imagery have perplexed and fascinated readers for more than 2,500 years. The prophet has had an impact not only on theology and the life of Church and Synagogue, but also on culture, art and architecture. The volume brings together 15 new essays on Ezekiel's impact by leading scholars, and they focus on a range of different parts of the book and periods of reception. Historically they cover the reception of Ezekiel from the New Testament to the present day, and include both Jewish and Christian readings of the book. Methodologically, they offer a wide sample of the different approaches to reception/history of interpretation current in contemporary biblical studies.

Essays on the reception history of the book of Ezekiel, arising from the work of the SBL section Theological Perspectives on the Book of Ezekiel'

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John F. A. Sawyer
Ezekiel in the History of Christianity

Marvin A. Sweeney
The Problem of Ezekiel in Talmudic Literature

Gary T. Manning, Jr.
Shepherd, Vine, and Bones: The Use of Ezekiel in the Gospel of John

Steve Moyise
Ezekiel and the Book of Revelation

Hector M. Patmore
Adam or Satan? The Identity of the King of Tyre in Late Antiquity

Robert A. Harris
The Reception of Ezekiel among Twelfth-Century Northern French Rabbinic Exegetes

Dalit Rom-Shiloni
Jerusalem and Israel, Synonyms or Antonyms? -Jewish Exegesis on Ezekiel's Prophecies against Jerusalem

Margaret S. Odell
Reading Ezekiel, Seeing Christ: The Ezekiel Cycle in the Church of St. Maria and St. Clemens, Schwarzrheindorf

Jaime Lara
Half-Way between Genesis and Apocalypse: Ezekiel as Message and Proof for New World Converts

Andrew Mein
Ezekiel's Women in Christianl³*