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Jun 5, 2019 · Von Däniken was hardly the first person to notice the strangeness of Ezekiel’s account of the chariot. Jewish tradition has long considered the chapter to be problematic, if not outright dangerous.
Jun 7, 2008 · The Fathers also reflect on the hypostatic union: first when identifying Christ as the man seated on the throne and second by focusing on the physical attributes of the one enthroned. Lastly, Christman focuses on the wheel of the chariot as a symbol for the spread of the gospel.
- Benjamin G. Wold
- 2008
The Chariot of the Lord—God’s Throne - I was watching a big storm come in from the north. It was a big cloud with a strong wind, and there was fire flashing from it. Light was shining out all around it. ...
Known as Mirkevet Yechezkel, “the Chariot of Ezekiel,” the reading speaks of the revelation to Ezekiel in which he saw the entire gamut of divine beings in what he describes as a “chariot.”. This text is actually the primary source in the Tanach for the mystical element of Torah, known in the Jewish vernacular as Kabbalah.
Ezekiel (Yechezkel) was a prophet who lived in Babylonia at the time of the destruction of the First Temple. Among his more famous prophecies, which were compiled in the Book of Ezekiel, are his visions of the Divine Chariot, the Valley of the Dry Bones and the Third Temple.
The locus classicus for these practices is the biblical accounts of the Chariot vision of Ezekiel and the Temple vision of Isaiah (Chap. 6). It is from these, and from the many extra-canonical apocalyptic writings of heavenly visitations, that hekhalot literature emerges.
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Aug 29, 2008 · Christian Exegesis of Ezekiel's Vision of the Chariot from Irenaeus to Gregory the Great – By Angela Russell Christman - DeConick - 2008 - Religious Studies Review - Wiley Online Library.
