The Importance of Ezekiel's Personality

Commentators have long been troubled about certain seeming inconsistencies between the claims for Ezekiel's historical ministry and the nature of the actual oracles in the book. One major question has centered on the personality of the prophet. There are accounts of great ecstatic visions which seem to seize the prophet. Many scholars have argued that he received most of his words in a trance or showed signs of abnormal parapsychology.