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"What Did Ezekiel See?"
Christian Exegesis of Ezekiel's Vision of the Chariot from Irenaeus to Gregory the Great
Series: - The Bible in Ancient Christianity, Volume: 4
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“What Did Ezekiel See?” analyzes the development of early Christian exegesis of Ezekiel 1, the prophet’s vision of the chariot. It demonstrates that as patristic commentators sought to discern this text’s meaning, they attended carefully to its very words, its relation to other biblical books, and the emerging Christian interpretive tradition.
In the first six centuries of the common era, three dominant exegetical strands develop concurrently: one which finds in Ezekiel’s vision confirmation of the unity of Old and New Testaments, a second which shows the significance of Ezekiel 1 for discussions of human knowledge of God, and a third which reads the prophet’s vision as illuminating the life of virtue.
The book will be useful to students of early Christianity, especially those concerned with the development of Christian exegesis, and to those interested in biblical studies.
In the first six centuries of the common era, three dominant exegetical strands develop concurrently: one which finds in Ezekiel’s vision confirmation of the unity of Old and New Testaments, a second which shows the significance of Ezekiel 1 for discussions of human knowledge of God, and a third which reads the prophet’s vision as illuminating the life of virtue.
The book will be useful to students of early Christianity, especially those concerned with the development of Christian exegesis, and to those interested in biblical studies.
Angela Russell Christman, Ph.D., University of Virginia, is currently Associate Professor of Theology and Co-Director of the Catholic Studies Program at Loyola College in Maryland. She co-edited
In Dominico Eloquio/In Lordly Eloquence: Essays on Patristic Exegesis in Honor of Robert Louis Wilken and is a contributor to The Church’s Bible.
All those interested in patristic (or early Christian) biblical interpretation. (This would include some in the field of early Christianity and some in the field of biblical studies.) Also those interested in early Christian understandings of virtue and of questions concerning human knowledge of God.