Ezekiel. John W. Hilber
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Название: Ezekiel

Автор: John W. Hilber

Издательство: Ingram

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isbn: 9781498294225

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      John W. Hilber

      All Saints’ Day 2018

      Abbreviations

      ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts. 3rd ed. Edited by James B. Pritchard. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969

      CAD The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Edited by Ignace J. Gelb et al. 21 vols. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1956–2010

      COS The Context of Scripture. Edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger Jr. 4 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1997–2017

      ESV English Standard Version

      KJV King James Version

      NASB New American Standard Bible

      NJPS Jewish Publication Society translation

      NET The NET Bible

      NIV New International Version

      NKJV New King James Version

      NLT New Living Translation

      NRSV New Revised Standard Version

      Introduction

      The Life and Times of the Prophet Ezekiel

      Ezekiel was born into a priestly family (Ezek 1:3) and was a young man when the Babylonians subjugated the kingdom of Judah. As was customary, the conquerors took youths from elite families into captivity in order to “socialize” them to be good servants of their overlord. The first such deportation was in 605 BC. Among these earliest political prisoners were the likes of Daniel (Dan 1:1–7). Ezekiel was likely part of a second wave of deportation. After Jehoiachin’s rebellion against the Babylonian overlords in 598 BC, there was a punitive exile of Jerusalem’s leaders (2 Kgs 24:12–16). Ezekiel’s prophetic call came five years after this event while living among the exiles (Ezek 1:1–3). His oracles span 20 years of his life (see comments at Ezek 40:1). God addresses Ezekiel as “son of man,” which stresses his human frailty in contrast to the sovereign sufficiency of God (see comments at Ezek 2:1). We do not know the exact location of the Kebar Canal, where Ezekiel lived among the exiles, but it was a primary irrigation canal branching off the Euphrates River.

      The Message of the Book as a Whole

      Nevertheless, Ezekiel envisions a day when God’s СКАЧАТЬ