A Legal Allusion: The Correlation of Law and History in Ezekiel 20.
This article expands the well-established relationship between Ezek 20 and the Holiness Code (H), developed by, among others, Michael Lyons. I argue that Ezekiel articulates the relationship between the exodus event and the legal material using an extensive intertextual allusion to H. These connecti...
| Published in: | Vetus Testamentum Vol. 73; no. 4/5; pp. 645 - 683 |
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2023
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