Ezekiel 38-48: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries | AYBC)

by Stephen L. Cook

Publisher:

Yale University Press

, 2018

Overview

Stephen L. Cook offers an accessible translation and interpretation of the final sections of Ezekiel. These chapters, the most challenging texts of scripture, describe the end-time assault of Gog of Magog on Israel and provide an incredible visionary tour of God’s utopian temple. Following the approach of Moshe Greenberg, the author of the preceding Anchor Yale Bible commentaries on Ezekiel, this volume grounds interpretation of the book in an intimate acquaintance with Ezekiel’s source materials, its particular patterns of composition and rhetoric, and the general learned, priestly workings of the Ezekiel school. The commentary honors Greenberg’s legacy by including insights from traditional Jewish commentators, such as Rashi, Kimhi, and Eliezer of Beaugency. In contrast to preceding commentaries, the book devotes special attention to the Zadokite idea of an indwelling, anthropomorphic “body” of God, and the enlivening effect on people and land of that indwelling.

Key Features

• Provides an accessible translation and interpretation of the final sections of Ezekiel
• Examines particular patterns of composition and rhetoric, and the general learned, priestly workings of the Ezekiel school
• Includes insights from traditional Jewish commentators

Contents

Top Highlights

“The second section in chapters 40–48 is an archetypal vision of a temple-centered world” (Page 4)

“These chapters outline a systematically ordered world organized around God’s temple.” (Page 4)

“Ezekiel’s utopia is not the eschatological realization of God’s reign” (Page 5)

“the group of Zadokite authors who composed Ezekiel 38–39” (Page 5)

“Milgrom 2012, 43). Would-be trespassers still need to be terrified by leonine cherubim (41:17–20); atonement is still required (45:17, 20); the ideal David of 34:23–24 and 37:25 is nowhere in sight. In particular, Israel’s promised eschatological heart transplant is not presupposed (Ezek 11:19–20; 36:26–27; Lyons 2010, 28).” (Page 5)

Product Details

• Title: Ezekiel 38–48: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
• Author: Stephen L. Cook
• Series: Anchor Yale Bible
• Volume: 22B
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2018
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 338
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Ezekiel 38-48 › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780300218817, 9780300240375, 0300218818, 0300240376
• Resource ID: LLS:ANCHOR26CEZE
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-30T23:06:31Z

About Stephen L. Cook

Stephen L. Cook is professor of Old Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary. He is the author ofConversations with Scripture: 2 Isaiah and is coeditor of The Whirlwind: Essays on Job, Hermeneutics and Theology in Memory of Jane Morse.