Ezekiel’s Vision
Ezekiel’s Vision Ezekiel’s vision of the dry bones (Ezek. 37:1–14) (Austria, sixteenth century AD) Geographical solutions to account for Ezekiel’s apparent knowledge of events in Jerusalem include two suggestions. The first is that Ezekiel ministered only in Jerusalem. His preaching forms the core of chapters 1–39 , and a later exilic redactor updated these chapters to address the concerns of an exilic audience and also added chapters 40–48 . The second suggestion is that Ezekiel ministered in Jerusalem from 593 BC until the fall of Jerusalem, at which time he was taken into captivity in Babylon, where he continued his ministry among the exiles. The appeal of a dual-ministry approach is that it accounts for the double geographical focus of Ezekiel without resorting to ecstatic or supernatural flight from one city to the other or positing extensive secondhand editing of the book. On the other hand, there is evidence from other biblical materials that ecstatic or visionary experienc...