Ezekiel's hierarchical world : wrestling with a tiered reality / edited by Stephen L. Cook and Corrine L. Patton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cook, Stephen L., 1962-

Patton, Corrine, 1958-

Series:

Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 31.

Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Ezekiel--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Ezekiel.

Social stratification--Biblical teaching.

Social stratification.

Hierarchies--Biblical teaching.

Hierarchies.

Priests, Jewish.

Biblical teaching.

Physical Description:

xiii, 288 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Contents:

Priesthood in exile according to the book of Ezekiel / Friedrich Fechter

Putting priests in their place: Ezekiel's contribution to the history of the Old Testament priesthood / Iain M. Duguid

A priest out of place: reconsidering Ezekiel's role in the history of the Israelite priesthood / Baruch J. Schwartz

Priest, prophet, and exile: Ezekiel as a literary construct / Corrine L. Patton

God's land and mine: creation as property in the book of Ezekiel / Julie Galambush

From harshness to hope: the implications for Earth of hierarchy in Ezekiel / Keith Carley

The silence of the lands: the ecojustice implications of Ezekiel's judgment oracles / Norman Habel

Ezekiel in Abu Ghraib: rereading Ezekiel 16:37-39 in the context of imperial conquest / Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

'With a mighty hand and an outstretched arm': the prophet and the Torah in Ezekiel 20 / Risa Levitt Kohn

Creation and hierarchy in Ezekiel: methodological perspectives and theological prospects / David L. Petersen

Cosmos, kabod, and cherub: ontological and epistemological hierarchy in Ezekiel / Stephen L. Cook

Proverb performance and transgenerational retribution in Ezekiel 18 / Katheryn Pfisterer Darr

In search of theological meaning: Ezekiel scholarship at the turn of the millennium / Daniel I. Block

Contemporary studies of Ezekiel: a new tide rising / Steven Shawn Tuell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and indexes.

ISBN:

9004130837

OCLC:

56482281