The God Ezekiel Creates

by Joyce, Paul M.; Rom-Shiloni, Dalit

• ISBN13: 9780567658593
• ISBN10: 0567658597
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-01-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Paul M. Joyce is Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, King's College London, UK

Dalit Rom-Shiloni is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. ‘Introduction: Ezekiel and his God’
Paul M. Joyce, King’s College London, UK, and Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Tel Aviv University, Israel

2. ‘The God Ezekiel Envisions’
Katheryn Pfisterer Darr, Boston University, USA

3. ‘The God that Ezekiel Inherited’
John T. Strong, Missouri State University, USA

4. ‘Creating a Deus Non Creator: Divine Sovereignty and Creation in Ezekiel’
Madhavi Nevader, University of St Andrews, USA

5. ‘The Recognition Formula and Ezekiel’s Conception of God’
Dexter E. Callender Jr., University of Miami, USA

6. ‘Ezekiel’s Picture of God in Ezekiel 1’
Ellen van Wolde, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

7. ‘The God that Gog Creates: ‘Drop the Stories and Feel the Feelings’
Corrine Carvalho, University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, MN, USA

8. ‘Ezekiel’s God Incarnate! The God that the Temple Blueprint Creates ‘
Stephen L. Cook, Virginia Theological Seminary, USA

9. ‘The Ezekiel that G-d Creates’
Marvin A. Sweeney, Claremont Lincoln University, USA

10. ‘The God Ezekiel Wants Us to Meet’
Daniel I. Block, Wheaton College, USA

11. Response to the Essays
Nathan MacDonald, Cambridge University, UK

12. Response to the Essays II
Rimon Kasher, Bar Ilan University, Israel

Bibliography
Index