Strine, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-1101-0242 (2017) On the compositional models for Ezekiel 38–39: a response to William Tooman's Gog of Magog. Vetus Testamentum, 67 (4). pp. 589-601. ISSN 1568-5330
Abstract
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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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Brill Academic Publishers. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Vetus Testamentum. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 May 2016 08:54 |
Last Modified: | 17 Nov 2019 01:38 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1163/15685330-12341297 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Brill Academic Publishers |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1163/15685330-12341297 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:98841 |