The body and being of God in Ezekiel
Understanding the way Ezekiel conceives of God as an embodied deity helps us see how he understands God as a “self.” In his visions of the kebôd YHWH (“Glory of YHWH”), Ezekiel describes the divine body in anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic ways, using language and imagery from both the Priestl...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2014
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Review and expositor
Year: 2014, Volume: 111, Issue: 4, Pages: 376-389 |
| Further subjects: | B
Zion-Sabaoth
B Sacred Space B Glory of the Lord B Ezekiel 8–11 B Ezekiel 1–3 B priestly literature |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Summary: | Understanding the way Ezekiel conceives of God as an embodied deity helps us see how he understands God as a “self.” In his visions of the kebôd YHWH (“Glory of YHWH”), Ezekiel describes the divine body in anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic ways, using language and imagery from both the Priestly (P) and Zion-Sabaoth (Z-S) traditions. As a result, Ezekiel blends two different ways of understanding God’s nature. Like P, God in Ezekiel is unified in body, but like Z-S, Ezekiel understands God to be capable of being radically present with different groups of Israelites simultaneously—that is, fluid in nature. This has implications for the way Ezekiel understands sacred space: he looks forward to a time when the sacred center is stable, but depicts a present reality in which no sacred center exists at all. |
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| ISSN: | 2052-9449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review and expositor
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0034637314554548 |