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Excerpt from Ezekiel and the Modern Dating of the Pentateuch: Inaugural Dissertation on Induction Into the Elliot F. Shepard Assistant Professorship of Oriental and Old Testament Literature in Princeton Theological Seminary
We have here, in fact, a situation similar to that which Paton has so well exhibited in the mutual relationship of Ezekiel xx and Leviticus xviii. 1 - 5. In Ezek. Xx it is evi dent that the prophet has in his own mind, and presupposes as present in his hearer's minds, those succinct injunctions regarding Egyptian and Canaanitish forms of idolatry which are recorded in Lev. Xviii. 1-5 and are assigned by the documentary analysis to H. Out of this brief hortatory section of H, less than 50 words in length, Ezekiel makes an extended homily of over 700 words. In the case of Ezek. Vii compared with the deluge - story we have, not indeed a homily on a Pentateuchal text, but the kindred phenomenon (already recognized and formulated by critics of Ezekiel) of the recurrent emergence of a favorite bor rowed phrase first seized and cherished because of its appeal to a true sense of analogy.
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