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The current state of scholarship on the book of Ezekiel, one of the three Major Prophets, is robust. Ezekiel, unlike most pre-exilic prophetic collections, contains overt clues that its primary circulation was as a literary text and not a collection of oral speeches. The author was highly educated, the theology of the book is ""dim,"" and its view of humanity is overwhelmingly negative. In The Oxford Handbook of Ezekiel, editor Corrine Carvalho brings together scholars from a diverse range of interpretive perspectives to explore one of the Bible's most debated books.Consisting of twenty-seven essays, the Handbook provides introductions to the major trends in the scholarship of Ezekiel, covering its history, current state, and emerging directions. After an introductory overview of these trends, each essay discusses an important element in the scholarly engagement with the book. Several essays discuss the history of the text (its historical context, redactional layers, text criticism, and use of other Israelite and near eastern traditions). Others focus on key themes in the book (such as temple, priesthood, law, and politics), while still others look at the book's reception history and contextual interpretations (including art, Christian use, gender approaches, postcolonial approaches, and trauma theory). Taken together, these essays demonstrate the vibrancy of Ezekiel research in the twenty-first century.

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This Handbook provides introductions to the major trends in the scholarship of Ezekiel, covering its history, current state, and emerging directions. * Old Testament Abstracts *

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Corrine Carvalho is Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Her research is primarily on exilic texts (Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Lamentations) and she is currently working on a commentary on Ezekiel. She is an active member of both the Society of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association, and currently serves as General Editor of The Catholic Biblical Quarterly.

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