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A Neglected Method in Ezekiel Research

A Neglected Method in Ezekiel Research A NEGLECTED METHOD IN EZEKIEL RESEARCH Editorial Criticism by BERNHARD LANG Tübingen In Ezekiel's final verdict against the Moabite enemy an unexpected detail has troubled many an exegete: the Ammonites are mentioned along with Moab to whom the oracle is addressed (Ezek. xxv 10). "I will give it (i.e., the Moabite territory) along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations, and I will execute judge- ments upon Moab" (vv. 10-11)i). J. W. Rothstein2) and many others have judged the Ammonites to be an obvious intrusion: they have no place in an oracle concerning solely the Moabites, for the Ammo- nites (a) seem to overload the sentence, make it clumsy and almost unreadable; (b) receive their own judgement oracle, which in fact is the preceding pericope (Ezek. xxv 1-7). Accordingly, literary critics have every reason to remove the bny`mtvn from the incriminated sentence, and I myself hasten to subscribe to this critical operation and the logic involved. However, one important question remains: how can we account for the presence of the Ammonites who are in fact twice introduced into our problematic text? In http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

A Neglected Method in Ezekiel Research

Lang, Bernhard
Vetus Testamentum , Volume 29 (1): 39 – Jan 1, 1979
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© 1979 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0042-4935
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A NEGLECTED METHOD IN EZEKIEL RESEARCH Editorial Criticism by BERNHARD LANG Tübingen In Ezekiel's final verdict against the Moabite enemy an unexpected detail has troubled many an exegete: the Ammonites are mentioned along with Moab to whom the oracle is addressed (Ezek. xxv 10). "I will give it (i.e., the Moabite territory) along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations, and I will execute judge- ments upon Moab" (vv. 10-11)i). J. W. Rothstein2) and many others have judged the Ammonites to be an obvious intrusion: they have no place in an oracle concerning solely the Moabites, for the Ammo- nites (a) seem to overload the sentence, make it clumsy and almost unreadable; (b) receive their own judgement oracle, which in fact is the preceding pericope (Ezek. xxv 1-7). Accordingly, literary critics have every reason to remove the bny`mtvn from the incriminated sentence, and I myself hasten to subscribe to this critical operation and the logic involved. However, one important question remains: how can we account for the presence of the Ammonites who are in fact twice introduced into our problematic text? In

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