Ezekiel: Reception and Interpretation
(A) Jewish Sources prior to 1800

I.    Reception of Ezekiel at Qumran, especially the Pseudo-Ezekiel fragments

Bauckham, R., "A Quotation from 4QSecond Ezekiel in the Apocalypse of Peter", RQ 15 [no. 59] (1991-1992) 437-445. Revised reprint [same title] in R. J. Bauckham, The Fate of the Dead: Studies on the Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (Novum Testamentum Supplements, 93; Leiden: Brill, 1998) 259-268.

Brady, M., "Biblical Interpretation in the 'Pseudo-Ezekiel' Fragments (4Q383-391) from Cave Four", in M. Henze (ed.), Biblical Interpretation at Qumran (Grand Rapids (MI): Eerdmans, 2005) 88-109.

Cothenet, E., "Influence d'Ezéchiel sur la spiritualité de Qumrân", RQ 13 (1988) 431-439.

Dimant, D. – J. Strugnell, "The Merkabah Vision in Second Ezekiel (4Q385 4)", RQ 14 (1990) 331-348.

Dimant, D., "Apocalyptic Interpretation of Ezekiel at Qumran", in I. Gruenwald – S. Shaked – G. Stroumsa (eds.), Messiah and Christos: Studies in the Jewish Origins of Christianity presented to David Flusser on the Occasion of his Seventy-Fifth Birthday (Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum, 32, Tübingen: Mohr [Siebeck], 1992) 31-51.

Dimant, D., "Resurrection, Restoration and Time-Curtailing in Qumran, Early Judaism, and Christianity", RQ 19 (2000) 527-548. [useful for data about "Pseudo-Ezekiel"]

Dimant, D., Qumran Cave 4, XXI: Parabiblical Texts, Part 4: Pseudo-Prophetic Texts (DJD XXX; Oxford: Clarendon, 2001), esp. 7-88. [pages for "Pseudo-Ezekiel"]

Dimant, D., "'Pseudo-Ezekiel' and the 'Apocryphon of Jeremiah C' in Perspective", RQ 25 (2011) 17-39.

García Martínez, F., "L'interprétation de la Torah d'Ezéchiel dans les MSS de Qumran", RQ 13 (1988) 441-452.

García Martínez, F., "The Apocalyptic Interpretation of Ezekiel in the Dead Sea Scrolls", in F. García Martínez – M. Vervenne (eds.), Interpreting Translation: Studies on the LXX and Ezekiel in Honour of Johan Lust. With the collaboration of B. Doyle (BETL 192; Leuven: Leuven University Press & Peeters, 2005) 163-176.

Hogeterp, A. L. A., "Resurrection and Biblical Tradition: Pseudo-Ezekiel Reconsidered", Bib 89 (2008) 59-69.

Kister, M. – E. Qimron, "Observations on 4QSecond Ezekiel", RQ 15 (1992) 595-602.

Manning, G. T., Echoes of a Prophet: The Use of Ezekiel in the Gospel of John and in Literature of the Second Temple Period (JSNTSup 270; London: T & T Clark, 2004), esp. 22-77. [on the use of Ezekiel in the Dead Sea Scrolls]

Parry, D. W. – E. Tov (eds.), The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader, Part 3: Parabiblical Texts. With the assistance of C. Anderson (The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader; Leiden: Brill, 2005). [includes the pseudo-Ezek texts and much else]

Philonenko, M., "Un arbre se courbera et se redressera (4Q385 2 9-10)", RHPR 73 (1993) 401-404.

Philonenko, M., "Les 'Oracles d'Hystaspe' et deux textes qoumrâniens (Règle de la Communauté 8, 12-14 et 4Q 385, 3, 2-7)", Semitica 47 (1997) 111-115.

Popović, M., "Prophet, Books and Texts: Ezekiel, Pseudo-Ezekiel and the Authoritativeness of Ezekiel Traditions in Early Judaism", in M. Popović (ed.), Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism (JSJSup 141; Leiden: Brill, 2010) 227-251.

Puech, É., La croyance des Esséniens en la vie future: immortalité, résurrection, vie éternelle? Histoire d'une croyance dans le Judaïsme Ancien. I: La résurrection des morts et le contexte scripturaire. II: Les données qumraniennes et classiques (EtBib, n.s. 21 & 22; Paris: Gabalda, 1993), esp. 606-616.

Puech, É., "L'image de l'arbre en 4QDeutéro-Ézéchiel (4Q385 2,9-10)", RQ 16 (1994) 429-440.

Smith, M., "Pseudo-Ezekiel: [4Q]391: 4QpapPseudo-Exekiel^e", in M. Broshi – E. Eshel – J. Fitzmyer – E. Larson – C. Newsom – L. Schiffman – M. Smith – M. Stone – J. Strugnell – A. Yardeni (in consultation with J. VanderKam), Qumran Cave 4, XIV: Parabiblical Texts, Part 2 (DJD XIX; Oxford: Clarendon, 1995) 153-193 (with Plates XVII-XXV).

Strugnell, J. – D. Dimant, "4Q Second Ezekiel (4Q 385)", RQ 13 (1988) 45-58.

Wacholder, B. Z., "Deutero Ezekiel and Jeremiah (4Q384-4Q391): Identifying the Dry Bones of Ezekiel 37 as the Essenes", in L. H. Schiffman – E. Tov – J. C. VanderKam (eds.), The Dead Sea Scrolls. Fifty Years after their Discovery. Proceedings of the Jerusalem Congress, July 20-25, 1997 (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2000) 445-461.

Wright, B. G., "Qumran Pseudepigrapha in Early Christianity: Is 1 Clem. 50:4 a Citation of 4QPseudo-Ezekiel (4Q385)?", in E. G. Chazon – M. Stone – A. Pinnick (eds.), Pseudepigraphic Perspectives: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Proceedings of the International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 12-14 January, 1997 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 31; Leiden: Brill, 1999) 183-193.

Wright, B. G., "Notes on 4Q391 (papPseudo-Ezekiel^e) and Biblical Ezekiel", in R. A. Argall – B. A. Bow – R. A. Werline (eds.), For a Later Generation: The Transformation of Tradition in Israel, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (Harrisburg, Penn.: Trinity Press International, 2000) 289-298.

II.    Reception of Ezekiel in other ancient texts

Eckart, K.-G., "Das Apokryphon Ezechiel", in W. Hage – K.-G. Eckart, Die griechische Baruch-Apokalypse. Das Apokryphon Ezechiel (JSHRZ 5.1; Gütersloh: Mohn, 1974).

Hare, D. R. A., "The Lives of the Prophets", OTP II (1985) 379-399.

Manning, G. T., Echoes of a Prophet: The Use of Ezekiel in the Gospel of John and in Literature of the Second Temple Period (JSNTSup 270; London: T & T Clark, 2004), esp. 78-99. [Ezekiel in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha]

Mueller, J. R. – S. E. Robinson, "Apocryphon of Ezekiel", OTP I (1983) 487-495.

Mueller, J. R., The Five Fragments of the Apocryphon of Ezekiel: A Critical Study (JSPSup 5; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994).

Neusner, J., Ezekiel in Talmud and Midrash: A Source Book (Studies in Judaism; Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007).

Schwemer, A. M., Studien zu den frühjüdischen Prophetenlegenden Vitae prophetarum. Band 1: Die Viten der großen Propheten Jesaja, Jeremia, Ezechiel und Daniel (Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, 49; Tübingen: Mohr, 1995).

Schwemer, A. M., Vitae Prophetarum (JSHRZ 1.7; Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1997).

Stone, M. E. – B. G. Wright – D. Satran (eds.), Apocryphon Ezechiel. The Apocryphal Ezechiel (Society of Biblical Literature. Early Judaism and Its Literature, 18; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000).

III.    Ezekiel in pre-1800 Jewish biblical commentaries

Cohen, M. (ed.), מקראות גדולות הכתר ... ספר יחזקאל / Mik­̣ra’ot gedolot ha-Keter, 6: Sepher Yeh­ezkel (Ramat-Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2000 [reprint 2003]). [commentaries of Rashi, Joseph Kara, David Kimḥ­i, Jehiel ben David Altschul (Meṣ­udot), Abarbanel, and others]

Levy, A. J. (ed.), Rashi's Commentary on Ezekiel 40-48. Edited on the basis of eleven manuscripts (Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1931).

IV.    Selected studies on Jewish interpretation of Ezekiel

Harris, R. A., "The Reception of Ezekiel among Twelfth-Century Northern French Rabbinic Exegetes", in A. Mein – P. M. Joyce (eds.), After Ezekiel: Essays on the Reception of a Difficult Prophet (LHB/OTS 535; New York & London: T & T Clark, 2011) 71-88.

Rom-Shiloni, D., "Jerusalem and Israel, Synonyms or Antonyms? Jewish Exegesis of Ezekiel’s Prophecies Against Jerusalem", in A. Mein – P. M. Joyce (eds.), After Ezekiel: Essays on the Reception of a Difficult Prophet (LHB/OTS 535; New York & London: T & T Clark, 2011) 89-114.

Sweeney, M. A., "The Problem of Ezekiel in Talmudic Literature", in A. Mein – P. M. Joyce (eds.), After Ezekiel: Essays on the Reception of a Difficult Prophet (LHB/OTS 535; New York & London: T & T Clark, 2011) 11-23.