Yip - Ezekiels Message of Hope and Restoration: Redaction-Critical Study of Ezekiel 1–7

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Many scholars share Paul M. Joyces view Before moving on, it is necessary to define the texts under investigation in this book.

One of the most distinctive features of Ezekiel is that the book lends itself to more than one structure. If we cast a quick glance at the various commentaries to Ezekiel, their descriptions of the structure of Ezekiel differ broadly from each other. The majority of contemporary scholars divide the book into three sections: Ezek 124 (punishment of Israel and Jerusalem); 2532 (punishment of foreign nations); 3348 (restoration of Israel and Jerusalem). In any case, the proposed structural models listed above are based on various criteria, including content, date of textual composition, and genre distinction; therefore a diverse mix of structural models emerges.

Among the various structural models, I was intrigued by the model that thematically structures Ezekiel as a book with the theme (the Glory of YHWH) because this model can account for the cohesive literary nature of Ezekiel. The recurrence of the theme in Ezekiels vision accounts (Ezek 13, 811, 37, and 4048)

Recently Tyler Mayfield has given a detailed study of the surface structure of Ezekiel; in his view, Ezek 17 is certainly a literary unit. He has argued convincingly that the structure of Ezekiel should be determined by the texts surface structure of the entire book, namely the chronological formulas and the prophetic word formulas. By identifying the chronological formulas in Ezekiel, thirteen distinct literary units for Ezekiel can be observed. The first chronological formula occurs in Ezek 1:1 and delineates the literary unit of Ezek 17.

I share Mayfields view that the chronological formulas serve as the major structural elements within Ezekiel, and that Ezek 17 is the literary unit. In other words, a redactional insertion in 1:2 does influence the literary interpretation in Ezek 17; the diachronic study of the chronological formulas is significant for the study of