Theme: The life-breathing God

Exegetical Note
This passage from the early exilic period records the well-known (through song) "dry bones" vision and its interpretation. The vision itself, with its reference to body and breath, seems to key on the creation story in Genesis 2. If the interpretation (vv. 11ff.) is any indication, the death here is a figurative reference to the sorry plight of Israel, so that the vision speaks not to resurrection in the specific sense, but to God's power to breathe life into even hopeless causes.

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