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Monday, August 08, 2022

Review of Ganzel, Ezekiel’s Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context

THE BIBLICAL REVIEW BLOG: Review: “Ezekiel’s Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context” by Tova Ganzel (William Brown).
Tova Ganzel. Ezekiel’s Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context. BZAW 539. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021.

Tova Ganzel’s Ezekiel’s Visionary temple in Babylonian Context is particularly refreshing as it incorporates key texts, history, and information about Neo-Babylonian temples as a means of articulating and clarifying aspects of Ezekiel’s Temple Vision. The monograph is replete with helpful introductions to those not familiar with Neo-Babylonian materials and a range of intriguing arguments that make sense of (or offer potential solutions to) religious aspects of the Temple Vision. ...

I noted the publication of the book here.

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