Ezekiel's Dates

Ezekiel has a lot of strange stuff in it, which again makes it a little bit popular if people ever get to it, either in personal reading or church. At times correct interpretation of Ezekiel hinges on recognizing some more academic things like textual problems archaic grammatical forms editorial clues. There are certain contexts in Ezekiel that we need to pay attention to they're in Babylon that's the biggest one. The fact that they're in Mesopotamia is could be important because they could be taking a stab at a Mesopotamian belief and religion something like that. It's not just Babylon, but you have a strong Canaanite context in certain chapters. You have a strong Phoenician context