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1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) |
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1. Broome and His Critics. 1. Klostermann. 2. Broome. 3. Howie. 4. Cassem. 5. Garfinkel. 6. Davis. 7. Jaspers; Goodenough -- 2. The Abominations in the Temple. 1. Ezekiel 8-11: The Text and Its Problems. 2. Ezekiel 8-11: "Things That Never Happened" 3. Josiah's Reform: Historical Considerations. 4. Josiah's Reform: The Evidence of Jeremiah. 5. The Problem Redefined. 6. Ezekiel and the Elders: The Chambers of Imagination. 7. Ezekiel and the Elders: Vision and Audience. 8. Ezekiel and the Elders: Pelatiah and Jaazaniah. 9. "Not Near Is the Building of Houses": The Situation of Ezekiel 11:1-13 -- 3. A Chamber of Horrors. 1. Ezekiel 8:7-12: Hebrew and Greek. 2. The Dread of the Chamber: Cross-Cultural Evidence. 3. The Dread of the Chamber: Ancient Near Eastern Evidence |
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4. The Dread of the Chamber: The "Strange Woman" 5. The Dread of the Chamber: The "Fountain of Blood" 6. Ezekiel 8:10, Deuteronomy 4:17-18. 7. Again, the Elders. 8. The Other Abominations: The "Image of Jealousy" 9. The Other Abominations: Lamentation for Tammuz. 10. The Other Abominations: The Buttocks and the Branch. 11. Why Pelatiah Died -- 12. Conclusion -- 4. Will You Judge Them, Son of Man? 1. Ezekiel's Wicked Women. 2. The Women and their Lovers. 3. The Women's Names. 4. Polluted Woman, Menstruous Temple: Ezekiel 7:20-22. 5. Punishment and Its Agents. 6. Child Sacrificed: The Crime of the Woman. 7. Child Sacrificed: The Crime of the Man. 8. Infant Abandoned. 9. The Death of Ezekiel's Wife -- 5. Ezekiel's Dumbness. 1. The Problem. 2. The Proposals |
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3. The Coming of the Fugitive. 4. Conversion Mutism: The Clinical Evidence. 5. The Solution -- Excursus: Ezekiel 12:1-16. A. Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, Judaic. B. Medical, Psychoanalytic, Ethnographic. C. Other -- Index of References -- Index of Hebrew Words and Phrases -- Index of Modern Authors -- Subject Index |
| Summary |
In Seeking Ezekiel, David J. Halperin argues that the biblical Book of Ezekiel provides substantial information about its author's psychology and reveals his personality in considerable depth. Psychoanalytic investigation of the book yields a coherent portrait of its author: a marvelously gifted yet profoundly disturbed man, tormented by inner conflicts over his sexual longings and fears. Ezekiel, Halperin argues, was dominated by a pathological dread and loathing of female sexuality. He expresses this emotional stance in the symbolic language of dreams (his vision of a temple polluted by idolatry); in a thin disguise of historical allegory (his obscenely graphic representations of Israel and Jerusalem as promiscuous wives); and in his self-described behavior at his wife's death. Ezekiel also demonstrates a deeply ambivalent attitude toward a dominant male figure. Normally, he projects the positive elements of his ambivalence onto his God, its negative elements onto other males. Yet the reverse can also take place, and this does much to explain the disturbing cruelty and arbitrariness of Ezekiel's God. Any psychological study of a man dead for 2500 years will run into formidable methodological difficulties. Halperin establishes the legitimacy of his approach by arguing that it permits the solution of a wide range of long-recognized textual problems. The implications of Halperin's study extend far beyond the boundaries of Biblical scholarship. The sexual pathology that he attributes to Ezekiel has afflicted humanity for most of its history, tainting the relations of men and women the world over. Ezekiel's powerful influence on posterity has done its part in strengthening the grip of this pathology. By understanding Ezekiel, people may come to a better understanding of his sickness within themselves and thus eventually come to find healing |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and indexes |
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Ezekiel (Biblical prophet) -- Psychology
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Ezekiel (Biblical prophet) fast |
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Ézéchiel (prophète) -- Psychologie. ram |
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Bible. Ezekiel -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Ezekiel fast |
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Bibel Ezechiel gnd |
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Bible. A.T. Ezéchiel -- Critique, interprétation, etc. ram |
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Prophets.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
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Psychology
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Psychologie
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Ezechiël (bijbelboek)
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780271071572 |
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0271071575 |
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9780271040523 |
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0271040521 |
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