On the Compositional Models for Ezekiel 38-39: A Response to William Tooman’s Gog of Magog
William Tooman’s monograph Gog of Magog: Reuse of Scripture and Compositional Technique in Ezekiel 38-39 has quickly become a seminal study of Ezek 38-39. This article examines and critiques Tooman’s influential position that Ezek 38-39 were composed by a method called thematic pastiche, which only...
| Published in: | Vetus Testamentum |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2017, Volume: 67, Issue: 4, Pages: 589-601 |
| Review of: | Gog of Magog (Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2011) (Strine, Casey A.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Ezechiel 38-39
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/ Pastiche
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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Book review
B Ezekiel 38–39 Gog of Magog inner-biblical exegesis textual dependence |
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| Summary: | William Tooman’s monograph Gog of Magog: Reuse of Scripture and Compositional Technique in Ezekiel 38-39 has quickly become a seminal study of Ezek 38-39. This article examines and critiques Tooman’s influential position that Ezek 38-39 were composed by a method called thematic pastiche, which only emerged in second temple Jewish texts. By showing inconsistencies in the limits of what constitutes thematic pastiche and by re-examining the evidence that Ezek 38-39 depends upon Joel 1:6; 2:27; 3:1-2; Isa 62:2; 66:18-19, this article demonstrates that Joel 3:1-2 and Isa 66:18-19 may even reuse Ezek 39:21, 29 as source texts, thus re-opening the search for which texts provide the compositional model for the Gog oracles. As a logical consequence of that finding, this article highlights problems with Tooman’s widely adopted proposal, albeit provisional, that Ezek 38-39 dates from the 4th to 2nd century bce. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Contains: | In: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341297 |