The Exile and the Prophet's Wife: Historic Events and Marginal Perspectives

Framsida
Liturgical Press, 2005 - 130 sidor
The author uses the unnamed character of Ezekiel's wife as a witness to explain the Exile in Babylon, at the same time providing historical information about Israel, the Temple cult, and the religion of Babylon; the reader is introduced to two methods of biblical criticism (ideological and psychoanalytical)--Provided by publisher.

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1
CHAPTER THREE
47
Ideological Criticism and the Old Testament
65
Psychoanalytical Criticism
84
Bibliography
117
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Sida 58 - You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation...
Sida xviii - I go to the Israelites and say to them, "The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?
Sida 16 - As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
Sida 51 - At this my body is racked with pain, pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor; I am staggered by what I hear, I am bewildered by what I see.
Sida 16 - In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of His robe filled the temple.
Sida 54 - Now WHILE HE WAS MAKING OFFERING to his gods, the god seized one of his youths and made him possessed. And he said to him: "Bring up the god! Bring the messenger who is carrying him! Amon is the one who sent him out! He is the one who made him come!
Sida 22 - I built a pillar over against the city gate, and I flayed all the chief men who had revolted, and I covered the pillar with their skins; some I walled up within the pillar, some I impaled upon the pillar on stakes...
Sida xiv - So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died.
Sida 20 - It is even harder for children than for adults to be uprooted and taken suddenly to an entirely different environment, and many of them died, in the early days from the change of food and climate. We had to do something drastic to preserve their health; and their education also a matter of great importance.
Sida 60 - In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

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