Ezekiel: A Commentary

by Walther Eichrodt

Publisher:

Westminster

, 1970

Overview

This volume brings to life the ministry and message of one of the most neglected of the major Old Testament prophets, and illuminates one of the most fascinating chapters on the history of Israel. Besides giving a verse-by-verse commentary of the book of Ezekiel, Walther Eichrodt fully discusses its origin and composition and all the knotty problems of the prophet’s own activity.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The utter despair expressed in the words of the exiles cited in v. 11 to which the words in 33:10 present a parallel may indicate a period still fairly close to the fall of Jerusalem during which the prophet’s office of administering consolation had not as yet been able to take effect.” (Pages 506–507)

“The experience of the vision begins with Ezekiel being seized by the hand of Yahweh as in 1:3 and 8:1, i.e. by an ecstatic trance in which the prophet’s mind is made to serve a reality other than itself.” (Page 507)

“What matters here is not the success or failure of the human messenger, but his obedience in carrying out what he has been commissioned to do (cf. 2:5): God has reserved to himself the demonstration of his truth.” (Page 467)

“God himself equates the dead bones of the vision with the house of Israel as seen in its representatives now living.” (Page 509)

“compare what is described here with Gen. 2). The features selected by Ezekiel surely” (Page 584)

Product Details

• Title: Ezekiel: A Commentary
• Author: Walther Eichrodt
• Series: The Old Testament Library
• Publisher: Westminster
• Print Publication Date: 1970
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Ezekiel › Commentaries
• ISBN: 066420872
• Resource ID: LLS:OTL26EZE
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:33:32Z

About Walther Eichrodt

Walther Eichrodt (1890 – 1978) was an eminent German Old Testament scholar and Protestant theologian. He received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1915 and taught as a professor of Old Testament and History of Religion at the Basel University from 1922 to 1960. His masterwork, the three volume Theologie des Alten Testaments (Theology of the Old Testament) appeared in 1933-1939. In retirement he continued writing academic works until shortly before his death in 1978 in Basel.

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