Reading Ezekiel: A Literary and Theological Commentary (Reading the Old Testament | RtOT)

by Marvin A. Sweeney

Publisher:

Smyth & Helwys

, 2013

Overview

One of the Bible’s most difficult and perplexing books, Ezekiel consists of strange visions and oracles by a Judean priest and prophet exiled to Babylonia in the sixth century BCE. His book envisions Yahweh’s return to a holy temple at the center of a reconstituted Israel—and the world at large. In Ezekiel’s telling, the purge of Jerusalem, the temple, and the people, lead to a glorious new creation—and Yahweh stands at last in the holy center of the created world. As biblical scholar Marvin A. Sweeney writes in his introduction, the book of Ezekiel ultimately represents “a profound attempt to encounter the holy in the profane world, and based on that encounter, to sanctify the world in which we live.”

Product Details

• Title: Reading Ezekiel: A Literary and Theological Commentary
• Author: Marvin A. Sweeney
• Series: Reading the Old Testament Series
• Publisher: Smyth & Helwys
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Ezekiel › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9781573126588, 1573126586
• Resource ID: LLS:ROT26EZE
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-31T00:00:01Z

About Marvin A. Sweeney

Marvin A. Sweeney is professor of Hebrew Bible at the Claremont Lincoln University and Claremont School of Theology, and professor of Bible at the Academy for Jewish Religion in California. He is the author of 12 books, including Isaiah 1–39 in The Forms of the Old Testament Literature series, New Visions of Isaiah, and Zephanaiah in the Hermeneia commentary series.