Ezekiel’s Map of Future Past
Attention to the spatial elements in the book of Ezekiel reveals a coherent plan that maps sin onto the spaces of city and temple which become the focus of correction in the visionary chapters that end the book (chs. 40–48). The book displays great disdain for all urban settings, including foreign c...
| Published in: | The Oxford handbook of Ezekiel |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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| In: |
The Oxford handbook of Ezekiel
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| Further subjects: | B
Space
B Temple B Tabernacle B Jerusalem B Eden B Ezekiel B City B Social Geography |
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| Summary: | Attention to the spatial elements in the book of Ezekiel reveals a coherent plan that maps sin onto the spaces of city and temple which become the focus of correction in the visionary chapters that end the book (chs. 40–48). The book displays great disdain for all urban settings, including foreign cities, for their corrupt politics, trade and crime. These charges especially apply to Jerusalem. The temple also exhibits similar corruption in terms of personnel, iconography and impurity. The final vision reaches back first into the pre-urban history of Judah, the wilderness period, in order to find a setting free from such corruptions, but ultimately it returns to an Eden-like state as the only viable solution to the problems of innate sin and desecration. This is an Eden with no free-will and no human agency, the only way to safeguard sacred space. |
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| ISBN: | 0190634545 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of Ezekiel
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 0.1093/oxfordhb/9780190634513.013.23 |