The Oxford Handbook of Ezekiel

The current state of scholarship on the book of Ezekiel, one of the three Major Prophets, is robust. Ezekiel, unlike most pre-exilic prophetic collections, contains overt clues that its primary circulation was as a literary text and not a collection of oral speeches. The author was highly educated, the theology of the book is "dim," and its view of humanity is overwhelmingly negative. In The Oxford Handbook of Ezekiel, editor Corrine Carvalho brings together scholars from a diverse range of interpretive perspectives to explore one of the Bible's most debated books.

Consisting of twenty-seven essays, the Handbook provides introductions to the major trends in the scholarship of Ezekiel, covering its history, current state, and emerging directions. After an introductory overview of these trends, each essay discusses an important element in the scholarly engagement with the book. Several essays discuss the history of the text (its historical context, redactional layers, text criticism, and use of other Israelite and near eastern traditions). Others focus on key themes in the book (such as temple, priesthood, law, and politics), while still others look at the book's reception history and contextual interpretations (including art, Christian use, gender approaches, postcolonial approaches, and trauma theory). Taken together, these essays demonstrate the vibrancy of Ezekiel research in the twenty-first century.

Corrine Carvalho is Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Her research is primarily on exilic texts (Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Lamentations) and she is currently working on a commentary on Ezekiel. She is an active member of both the Society of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association, and currently serves as General Editor of The Catholic Biblical Quarterly.

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List of Contributors

Ezekiel in the Twenty-first Century
Corrine Carvalho, University of St. Thomas

Ezekiel in Its Historical Context
Marvin A. Sweeney, Claremont School of Theology

The Mesopotamian Context of Ezekiel
Daniel Bodi, University of Paris

Ezekiel and Israel's Legal Traditions
Michael A. Lyons, University of St. Andrews

Ezekiel among the Prophetic Tradition
Anja Klein, Edinburgh University

Ezekiel and Israelite Literary Traditions
Dexter E. Callender, University of Miami

Text-Critical Issues in Ezekiel
Timothy P. Mackie, Western Seminary

Rhetorical Strategies in the Book of Ezekiel
Dale Launderville, St. John's University

Ezekiel as a Written Text: Archiving Visions, Remembering Futures
Ian D. Wilson, University of Alberta

Ezekiel among the Exiles
Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Tel Aviv University

Ezekiel and Politics
Madhavi Nevader, University of St. Andrews

Priests, Levites, and the Nasi: New Roles in Ezekiel's Future Temple
Tova Ganzel, Bar Ilan University

Ezekiel's Concept of Covenant
John Strong, Missouri State University

Ezekiel and the Foreign Nations
C.L. Crouch, Radboud University Nijmegen and University of Pretoria

Ezekiel and the Priestly Traditions
Stephen L. Cook, Virginia Theological Seminary

Communications of the Book of Ezekiel: From the Iron Wall to the Voice in the Air
Soo J. Kim Sweeney, Central Baptist Theological Seminary (Kansas City, KS)

Ezekiel in Christian Interpretation: Gog, Magog and Apocalyptic Politics
Andrew Mein, University of St. Andrews

Pastoral Appropriations of Ezekiel
Steven Tuell, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

Ezekiel in the Jewish Tradition
Yedida Eisenstat, York University

Where There's Fire There's Smoke: Text and Image in the Ezekiel Painting at Dura-Europos
Margaret S. Odell, St. Olaf

Ezekiel and Gender
Amy Kalmanofsky, Jewish Theological Seminary

Embodiment in Ezekiel
Rhiannon Graybill, Rhodes College

Ezekiel as Trauma Literature
Ruth Poser, Philipps Universitat Marburg

Uncertainties in First Contact? Ezekiel's Struggle Toward a "Comparative Gaze"
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, Loyola Marymount University

Ezekiel's Map of Future Past
Carla Sulzbach, McGill University

Ezekiel Imperialized Geographies in the Nation Oracles
Steed Vernyl Davidson, McCormick Theological Seminary

Ezekiel's Tangible Ethics: Physicality in the Moral Rhetoric of Ezekiel
Corrine Carvalho, University of St. Thomas