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Book SynopsisA collection of scholarly essays that focus on the creative reuse of older materials in the composition of the Book of Ezekiel, revealing how the text transforms the traditions of Israel for an Exilic and post-Exilic context.
Trade Review'...This volume's riches deserve careful study, and will undoubtedly promote the already burgeoning scholarly dialogue about the history, text, and theology of Ezekiel, to which the useful bibliographies bear eloquent witness...' P. J. M. Southwell, The Expository Times, Vol. 124, No. 8, May 2013 'A fantastic volume of work by so many engaging and knowledgeable scholars' Lindsey Arielle Askin, Reviews in Religion & Theology, Volume 21, issue 3, July 2014
Table of ContentsContributors 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
