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Jan 1, 1890 — Jan 1, 1978· 88 yrs

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Walther Eichrodt

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The living creatures, living beings, or chayyoth (Hebrew: חַיּוֹת, romanized: ḥayyōṯ) are a class of heavenly beings in Judaism. They are described in the prophet Ezekiel's vision of the heavenly chariot in the first and tenth chapters of the Book of Ezekiel. References to the sacred creatures recur in texts of Second Temple Judaism, in rabbinical merkabah ("chariot") literature, in the Book of Revelation in the Christian New Testament, and in the Zohar. According to Jewish and Christian traditions, there are four living creatures, although their description varies by source. The symbolic depiction of the four living creatures in religious art, especially Christian art, is called a tetramorph.

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AMONG ALL THE PROBLEMS known to OT studies, one of the most far-reaching in its importance is that of the theology of the OT : for its concern is to contruct a complete picture of the OT realm of belief, in other words to comprehend in all its uniqueness and immensity what is, strictly speaking, the proper object of OT study.

— from Theology of the Old Testament (Old Testament Library)

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Theology of the Old Testament

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Ezekiel

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Besides giving a verse-by-verse commentary on the Book of Ezekiel, the author discusses its origin and composition and all the knotty problems of the prophet's own activity. Ezekiel represents in himself his priestly heritage and his prophetic charisma, between the tendency to conserve the past and the profound immersion in a present that forced a complete reorientation of Judah's religion. The author comes down, with many recent commentators, against the excesses that identified the book as a pseudoepigraph or as a small collection of authentic poems almost totally submerged in secondary material. Ezekiel himself is the basic compiler of the book, though some redactional insertions demonstrate that editors have been at work throughout the text, expanding and sometimes altering the meaning of the original oracles.

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Man in the Old Testament

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