Ezekiel and the Ethics of Exile

Whereas much recent work on the ethics of the Hebrew Bible addresses the theological task of using the Bible as a moral resource for today, this book aims to set Ezekiel''s ethics firmly in the social and historical context of the Babylonian Exile. The two ''moral worlds'' of Jerusalem and Babylonia provide the key. Ezekiel explains the disaster in terms familiar to his audience''s past experien...