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• Title: Unnoticed Resonances of Tomb Opening and Transportation of the Remains of the Dead in Ezekiel 37:12-14.
• Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 210 KB

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Whether Ezek 37:12-14 was an original component part of a larger narrative encompassing 37:1-14, or related to material in 37:1-11 in some other way, many commentators view these verses, like 37:1-10, as a response to the saying attributed to a dejected Judah in 37:11: "Our bones are dry, our hope has perished, we are utterly cut off" ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], yabesu casmotenu we 'abeda tiqwatenu nigzarnu lanu). (1) The narrative of 37:1-10 contests the saying's assumption of hopelessness by envisioning a valley of human remains that are reconstituted and reanimated through Ezekiel's prophetic word and YHWH's decisive actions. Similarly, 37:12-14 challenges the people's despondency with a prophetic word from YHWH to the people: Both 37:1-10 and 37:12-14 respond to the metaphors of the saying in v. 11, which suggests the "death" of the people. (2) The first section (vv. 1-10) takes up the figurative expression "our bones are dry" and offers in response a vision of a reanimated people of great number; the second (vv. 12-14) responds to the claim that the people "are utterly cut off" with a promise that YHWH will raise them from their tombs, reanimate them, and resettle them in their land. Each section, in its own way, challenges the notion that hope has perished for the Judeans in exile. (3) Though 37:1-10 has received much attention from scholars, 37:12-14 has been of less interest, even given its strikingly unusual imagery and its message of restoration in the land. (4) It is my purpose to analyze the imagery of 37:12-14, particularly YHWH's promise to open the tombs of exiled Judeans, raise them up from their tombs, and bring them back to their land, in light of the resonances of tomb opening and the transportation of the remains of the dead back to ancestral territory and family tomb as witnessed in both biblical and cognate literatures.

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