Ezekiel Traditions in the Second Temple Period

Anna Shirav Hamernik, Ph.D. (2023), is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Jewish Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocalyptic Literature, and the transmission of scriptural traditions in the Second Temple period.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Research Objectives and Method2 Chapter Synopsis3 Text and Translation1 Words of Ezekiel in Scholarly Context1 The Scrolls of WoEzek2 The Textual Sphere of WoEzek2 4QWords of Ezekiel: Discovery, Identification, and Scholarly Perspectives1 The History of the Discovery2 The Shared History of 4QWords of Ezekiel and 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah C: Purchase, Identification, and Publication3 Current Textual Approaches to the Connection Between WoEzek Ezekiel and Apocryphon of Jeremiah C4 Fresh Observations on the Relationship Between WoEzek and the Apocryphon of Jeremiah5 Conclusions3 The Leather Scrolls of 4QWords of Ezekiel: 4Q385–4Q386 and 4Q3881 Material Considerations, Stylistic Characteristics, and Their Influence on the Understanding of the Composition2 4Q3853 4Q385b (=4Q385 7)4 4Q3865 4Q3886 Reconstructing 4QWords of Ezekiel7 Conclusions4 The Papyrus Manuscript 4Q3911 The Material and Textual Characteristics of 4Q3912 Text and Comments3 WoEzek, Textual Pluriformity, and the Question of Authoritativeness5 “And You Shall Live Again, and I Will Set You upon Your Own Soil”: Reading 4QWords of Ezekiel as a Narrative1 Opening; The Day of the Lord (4Q385b)2 The End of the Current Cosmic Order (4Q385 4)3 Revelation in Exile—the Merkavah Vision (4Q385 6)4 Resurrection According to the Vision of the Dry Bones (4Q385 2. Par: 4Q386 1i, 4Q388 7 + 4Q385 3)5 4Q386 1 ii—Exilic Patterns in the History of Israel6 4Q386 1 iii—the Fall of Babylon7 Conclusions3 Between Ezekiel and Moses: Prophetic Authority and the Formation of a Nation1 Merging Authority: Ezekiel’s Role in Mosaic Discourse2 Ezekiel as a Second Moses3 Ezekiel and the Law of the Torah4 Establishing the Covenant: the Re-presentation of the Exodus by Ezekiel5 Conclusions7 Reading Words of Ezekiel as an Apocalypse: Reaching the End, Re-Building the Temple?1 Time, Covenants and Temples: WoEzek, the Books of Jubilees, and Related Traditions2 Reaching the Endzeit3 Ezekiel’s Temple and the Apocalyptic Imagination8 The Literary and Linguistic Distinctiveness of WoEzek, the Question of Provenance, and the Emerging of “Ezekielian Imagination”1 The Overlooked Exodus Tradition in 4QWords of Ezekiel and Its Social Context2 The Hebrew of WoEzek3 The Provenance of WoEzek4 Writing and Rewriting Ezekiel in the Second Temple Period5 The Ezekielian ImaginationSummary and ConclusionsBibliographyIndex of Modern AuthorsIndex of Ancient Sources