Specialists in the book of Ezekiel examine how the Old Testament book presents Israel's God. Their topics include the god that Ezekiel inherited, creating a deus non creator: divine sovereignty and creation in Ezekiel, the recognition of formula and Ezekiel's conception of god, the god that the temple blueprint creates, the Ezekiel that g-d creates, the god Ezekiel wants readers to meet: theological perspectives on the Book of Ezekiel, and the god that the scholarship on Ezekiel creates. The 10 essays were presented at conferences of the Society of Biblical Literature from 2010 to 2012. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This powerful collection of essays focuses on the representation of God in the Book of Ezekiel. With topics spanning across projections of God, through to the implications of these creations, the question of the divine presence in Ezekiel is explored.
Madhavi Nevader analyses Divine Sovereignty and its relation to creation, while Dexter E. Callender Jnr and Ellen van Wolde route their studies in the image of God, as generated by the character of Ezekiel. The assumption of the title is then inverted, as Stephen L. Cook writes on 'The God that the Temple Blueprint Creates', which is taken to its other extreme by Marvin A. Sweeney in his chapter on 'The Ezekiel that God Creates', and finds a nice reconciliation in Daniel I. Block's chapter, 'The God Ezekiel Wants Us to Meet.' Finally, two essays from Christian biblical scholar Nathan MacDonald and Jewish biblical scholar, Rimon Kasher, offer a reflection on the essays about Ezekiel and his God.
