AB 22B: Ezekiel 38-48

A fresh interpretation of the final major sections of the Hebrew book of
Ezekiel, chapters 38-48
Stephen L. Cook offers an accessible translation and interpretation of the
final sections of Ezekiel. These chapters, the most challenging texts of
scripture, describe the end-time assault of Gog of Magog on Israel and provide
an incredible visionary tour of God's utopian temple. Following the approach of
Moshe Greenberg, the author of the preceding Anchor Yale Bible commentaries on
Ezekiel, this volume grounds interpretation of the book in an intimate
acquaintance with Ezekiel's source materials, its particular patterns of
composition and rhetoric, and the general learned, priestly workings of the
Ezekiel school. The commentary honors Greenberg's legacy by including insights
from traditional Jewish commentators, such as Rashi, Kimhi, and Eliezer of
Beaugency. In contrast to preceding commentaries, the book devotes special
attention to the Zadokite idea of an indwelling, anthropomorphic body" of God, " and the enlivening effect on people and land of that indwelling.