Yechezkel HaNavi
622 BCE–570 BCE · Biblical · Babylonia (exile era)
Ezekiel was a priest carried into Babylonian exile who became its strangest and most visionary prophet, active in the early 6th century BCE. To despairing exiles in Babylon he delivered both stern warnings of judgment and profound visions of restoration and redemption — including the two images that still grip readers: a valley of dry bones rattling back to life, and a blazing divine chariot-throne (Merkavah). His book, preserved in the Hebrew Bible, is one of the most visionary and theologically complex prophetic works, and that chariot vision became the seed of Jewish mysticism's earliest tradition, which he is traditionally regarded as having inaugurated — the Merkavah tradition that would later flourish in rabbinic Judaism.
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Babylonia (exile era)Babylonian exile
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About Babylonia (exile era)
Babylonia in the exile era refers to Mesopotamia (Iraq) during and after the Babylonian Exile, when the population of the Kingdom of Judah was deported by Nebuchadnezzar following the destruction of the First Temple (586 BCE). The biblical books of Ezekiel and Daniel are set among the exiles in Babylonia, and the Esther narrative unfolds in the Persian period that followed; this community became the seed of the great Babylonian Jewish center.
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