A New Heart and a New Soul: Ezekiel, the Exile and the Torah

Description

This book examines, in greater detail than previously undertaken, the presence of Priestly and Deuteronomic language and concepts in the book of Ezekiel. It asks: what is the nature of the relationship between Ezekiel and the Priestly Source? What is the nature of the relationship between Ezekiel, Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History? Where does the book of Ezekiel stand in the evolution of Israelite history, theology and literature-specifically, what can Ezekiel teach us about the composition of the Torah?

Risa Levitt Kohn is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department, San Diego State University, California.

"Levitt Kohn's study lays a foundation for further research on inner-biblical interpretation and allusion. The data presented in the lists should aid further studies of the functional and thematic use made by Ezekiel of these earlier sources.... Levitt Kohn's overall thesis is definitely intriguing and well supported. She contributes a comprehensive study of the idiomatic similarities between Ezekiel and P and Ezekiel and D.... Levitt Kohn's study should definitely serve scholars of both Ezekiel and the Petateuch. As a window for further research, it could, moreover, be instructive for scholars interested in inner-biblical interpretation. -Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Journal of Biblical Literature, Volume 123, No. 2, Summer 2004 "...correctly challenge[s] the long-standing Wellhausenian view that P was dependent on Ezekiel as well as recently emerging views of a Dtr redaction of Ezekiel...[U]seful..." -Religious Studies Review, 01/04 * Religious Studies Review *