... the Holiness Code regarding the life God intends for Israel in the land (Lev. 26:3–13; Odell, Ezekiel, p. 429). So, God will banish wild beasts from the land, so that one may lie ... Judah and the Israelites associated with him,” on the other, “Ephraim’s stick, belonging to Joseph and all the house of Israel associated with him” (v. 16). We might ask how ... century A.D. (Lust, “Shorter and Longer Texts,” p. 13, citing the work of H. St. J. Thackeray). Finally, in the Heb. of 36:23b–38 we find an odd ...
... kingdom, and 37:16, where the northern kingdom is designated Ephraim and Joseph; but see also 9:9). Still, the use of the contrasting terms ... Ezekiel, idols are heaps of dung—loathsome, contemptible, defiled, and defiling (see H. W. Wolff, “Jahwe und die Götter in der alttestamentlichen Prophetie,” EvT ... Lapsley, “Shame and Self-Knowledge: The Positive Role of Shame in Ezekiel’s View of the Moral Self,” in Odell and Strong, eds., Book of Ezekiel, p. 155). 7:1–27 The text of Ezek. 7 is difficult. In ...