Duelling dynasties: A proposal concerning Ezekiel’s sign-act of the two sticks
Abstract
Ezekiel’s sign-act of the two sticks is an interpretive quagmire. Interpretive issues include the association of ‘Israel’ with both sticks, the use of the name ‘Joseph’ to identify the entity associated with the second stick, the interest in a defunct northern kingdom which this is thought to reflect, the relationship between the entities represented by the two sticks, the meaning of the terms עץ and שבט, and the use of מלך. The article aims to resolve a number of these issues and to suggest the cause of certain others. It argues that the sign-act concerns the competing claims of the two royal lines created by the deportation of Jehoiachin to Babylon and the appointment of Zedekiah in Jerusalem. It should therefore be understood as part of a wider corpus of texts attesting to the ideological and practical struggle between the Babylonian golah and those left behind in the land.
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- Authors
- Crouch, C. L.
- Affiliations
- Fuller Theological Seminary (US)
- Corresponding author
- Crouch, C L
- ORCID
- Crouch, C L
- Venue
- Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2020-05-05
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-19
- ISSN
- 0309-0892 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-6728
- OpenAlex
- W3022814092
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2022: 1 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 4.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (publishedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Near East History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Keywords
- Joseph, Israel, Northern Kingdom, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah, Babylonian exile, dynasties
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