A Note on Ezekiel

I have always imaged Ezekiel how Michelangelo painted him in the Sistine Chapel: suspicious and plain, with an awkwardness that accentuated his lack of poise. Poor Ezekiel’s life was marked by tragedy and bazaar demonstrations to a distracted audience. He was exiled into Babylon, but continued to write about the Israelite’s idolatry with other Gods and their alliances with Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia. His writings are some of the most expressive marital imagery in ancient literature. His two primary chapters that deal with marriage imagery are chapters 16 and 23.