Synopsis: This volume includes nine essays that move Ezekiel's
creative reuse of older materials to the foreground of discussion.
The essays highlight the transformation of earlier texts,
traditions, and theology in Ezekiel. They explore the diverse ways
that Ezekiel reshapes Israel's legal texts, rituals, oracles
against foreign nations, royal ideology, conception of the
individual, remembrance of the past, and hope for the future. The
work concludes by noting the subsequent transformation of Ezekiel
in scribal transmission and in the New Testament. Endorsements:
"Tooman and Lyons present a wide range of significant scholars who
address the key issue in Exilic and especially Ezekiel studies
today--why and how did an almost total transformation of Israel's
Religion take place during the Exile. Before exile, it was centered
on active royal, ritualistic, and oracular activity; after exile,
it centered on priestly-legislated and tradition-centered guidance
of practical observance. The authors offer important insights on
the concepts of idolatry, divine and human kingship, individual
versus corporate moral responsibility, the role of divine holiness,
the Exodus tradition, the importance of priestly viewpoints, and
the way the Book of Ezekiel was written and enlarged. This single
volume brings together all major trends in Ezekiel studies today."
--Lawrence Boadt, CSP, Professor Emeritus, Washington Theological
Union "The present volume, edited by two rising Ezekiel scholars,
Michael A. Lyons and William A. Tooman, makes a substantive
contribution to the burgeoning discussion of the book of Ezekiel by
emphasizing the theme of transformation, understood in relation to
the text of Ezekiel, the traditions on which it draws and by which
it developed, and its theological perspectives. Each essay engages
a different aspect of the study of the book, and thereby opens and
advances scholarly dialog in its own right." Marvin A. Sweeney,
from the Foreword Editor Biography: William A. Tooman is Lecturer
in Old Testament at University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Michael A.
Lyons is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Simpson
University. He is the author of From Law to Prophecy: Ezekiel's Use
of the Holiness Code. CONTRIBUTORS: Daniel I. Block, Wheaton
College Graduate School Tova Ganzel, Bar-Ilan University Paul M.
Joyce, St. Peter's College, Oxford University Beate Kowalski,
University of Koblenz-Landau Thomas Kruger, University of Zurich
Michael A. Lyons, Simpson University Timothy Mackie, University of
Wisconsin-Madison Jill Middlemas, Arhus University Paul R. Raabe,
Concordia Seminary Baruch Schwartz, Hebrew University William A.
Tooman, University of St. Andrews
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