Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Download or read book Transforming Visions written by Michael A Lyons and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes nine essays that move Ezekiel's creative reuse of older materials to the foreground of discussion. The essays highlight the transformation of earlier texts, traditions, and theology in Ezekiel. They explore the diverse ways thatEzekiel reshapes Israel's legal texts, rituals, oracles against foreign nations, royal ideology, conception of the individual, remembrance of the past, and hope for the future. The work concludes by noting the subsequent transformation of Ezekiel inscribal transmission and in the New Testament.