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Preaching Ezekiel. Gustave Doré, The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones . 1865. Carchemish. Nebuchadnezzar. Judah. Neco. Ezekiel. Jehoiachin + leaders. Mattaniah = Zedekiah. Ezekiel. Social Trauma Theological Trauma The land Chosen people Jerusalem Temple Kingship.
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Preaching Ezekiel Gustave Doré, The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones. 1865 James Robson
Carchemish Nebuchadnezzar Judah Neco
Ezekiel Jehoiachin + leaders
Mattaniah = Zedekiah
Social Trauma • Theological Trauma • The land • Chosen people • Jerusalem • Temple • Kingship By the rivers of Babylon – there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. Psalm 137:1
Ezekiel as first human in Yahweh’s new work of creation by word and spirit. • Ruach effects Ezekiel’s obedience • Ruach gives life to hopeless exiles (37:1-14) • Ezekiel 37:1-14 and Gen. 2:7 So…word and spirit unite in an act of new creation, creating a new humanity