vii Part I: Gathering the Data Chapter 1: Introduction. Yahweh's rfiab has a fundamental role in the envisaged obedient response to Yahweh's word, both of Ezekiel and of the book's addressees.ģ ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract. Further, it provides an integrated account of the different occurrences of rfiab in relation to the rhetorical function of the book. This provides a different perspective on the conundrum of the presence in the book of calls to repentance alongside declarations of Yahweh's unilateral salvific actions. His experience illuminates for them how the dramatic vision of the future can become a reality in their experience. The prophet Ezekiel's experience of Yahweh's rfiab and his own obedience to Yahweh's call are clearly contrasted with the disobedience of the prophet's addressees in order to present Ezekiel as a model for the addressees of the book. The emphasis on Yahweh's rfiab in Ezekiel, even the `prophetic spirit', is best understood in relation to the book's concern for the transformation of its addressees. This thesis examines the relationship between rfiab and prophecy in Ezekiel and in the rest of the Old Testament, and shows that the dominant paradigm requires modification. This reading interprets the emphasis on rfiab in Ezekiel in terms of the self-authentication of the ministry of the prophet. According to the dominant paradigm for explaining the emphasis on rfiab and its relation to Yahweh's word within the book of Ezekiel, the prophet Ezekiel is recovering from the pre-classical prophets, or even pioneering, an emphasis on rfiab in prophecy that is conspicuously absent from the classical, writing prophets. It argues that the relationship between Yahweh's rüah and Yahweh's word is to be understood not so much in terms of the inspiration and authentication of the prophet but in terms of the transformation of the book's addressees. This thesis explores `word', raah, and their relationship in the book of Ezekiel. and Spirit in Ezekiel A thesis submitted to Middlesex University in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy James Edward Robson Oak Hill College Middlesex University July 2004Ģ 1 ABSTRACT Two fundamental experiences of Yahweh in the Old Testament are an encounter with the `word' of Yahweh and an encounter with the `spirit' or `wind' or `breath' (rüah) of Yahweh.
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