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Ezekiel

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Timeline

The Major prophets are here grouped with 'the Twelve' prophets, forming the core of the Nevi'im.

Monarchic (pre-586 BC) Exilic (586-538 BC) Persian (538-332 BC) Nevi'im
700 600 500 400 BC
Fall of Samaria (Assyria conquers Israel)722 BC Destruction of Jerusalem & First Temple587/586 BC Mission of Ezra & Nehemiahc. 458-432 BC

Chapters

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48

Outline

  1. Inaugural vision and call 1:1-3:27
  2. Judgment on Jerusalem 4:1-24:27
  3. Oracles against the nations 25:1-32:32
  4. Restoration and the dry bones 33:1-39:29
  5. Vision of the new Temple 40:1-48:35

Manuscript witnesses

Major codices

Codex Cairensis — 895 AD
An early Masoretic codex of the Former and Latter Prophets.
Aleppo Codex — c. 930 AD
The model Masoretic codex, prepared by the Ben Asher scribes; much of its Torah is now lost.
Leningrad Codex (B19A) — 1008 AD
The oldest complete Masoretic Hebrew Bible and the base text of modern critical editions.

Other witnesses

Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran) — c. 250 BC - 68 AD
The Qumran biblical manuscripts, the oldest Hebrew and Aramaic witnesses by roughly a millennium.

Sources

  1. a Coogan, Michael D. The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2018.