Mapping Ezekiels Oracles against the Nations

By Lydia Lee

2016

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378

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11H28M

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Ancient Near East Monographs

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A unique study of ancient challenges to identity boundaries Ezekiel 25–32 contains some of the most virulent speeches directed against Judah's neighboring nations. Some scholars emphasize that the destruction of the nations in chapters 25–32 means the upcoming salvation of God's people. Other scholars presuppose that the nations are judged by a separate moral standard and render the judgment executed upon the nations irrelevant to that upon Judah. In this study, Lydia Lee postulates a third way to perceive the rhetorical roles of the nations in Ezekiel 25–32. Unraveling the intricate connections between the oracles against the nations and those against Judah, Lydia Lee argues that Ezekiel 25–32 contains a daring message directed not only against the foreign nations, but also against Judah's land, temple, and nation. Lee places Ezekiel 25–32 in a broader context, considering how samples of its early reception within the prophetic book affirm or transform the bleak message about the oblique judgment for the house of Judah. Features

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Lydia Lee

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Hello! I am Lydia. 🙂 Malaysia was my birth country, but then I immigrated to Australia when I was 15. Having completed a Student Exchange Programme at RIS of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel (Fall Semester 2008), I earned a B. A. (Honours) in Biblical Studies and Classical Hebrew at the University of Sydney in Australia (2009). The defense of my doctoral dissertation, which is on the oracles against the nations in Ezekiel 25-32, took place in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Germany (2014). My marriage to my lovely husband from China in 2015 has marked a new chapter of my life! ♥ Between 2016 and 2018, I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) in South Africa. Since October 2018, I have served as a Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. "Mapping Judah's Fate in Ezekiel's Oracles against the Nations" is my first and most recent book. Happy reading!