| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 418 pages) |
| Contents |
The right ordering of perception through the interplay of spirit and reason -- The pure versus the impure : a vital tension within a living symbol -- The heart of the matter : the principle of community -- The place of skepticism in determining the divinely willed order of the world -- The justice and tragedy of a community beset by divine and human violence -- Death and afterlife : the journey into a new existence or into nothingness -- Spirit and holiness : the embodiment of divine order |
| Summary |
By comparing and contrasting the pictures gained from Greek and Mesopotamian cities with Ezekiel's Jerusalem, Launderville masterfully shows how Ezekiel fosters a type of symbolic thinking focused on making the Israelites into living symbols of God. The Spirit is the reality that connects humans with the cosmic order and enables the workings of the human heart-the place within which reason functions, according to ancient Israelite anthropology. Ezekiel's symbolic thinking is an integrative rationality in which the reason is regarded as operating within the heart through the empowerment and guidance of the Spirit |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Ezekiel -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Ezekiel fast |
| Subject |
Faith and reason -- Biblical teaching
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Prophets.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781602580893 |
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1602580898 |
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9781280969225 |
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1280969229 |
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9786610969227 |
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6610969221 |
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