Goldingay is perhaps the most prolific OT commentator of our day. I’ve seen writers take a decade to produce a work like he has given us here in Ezekiel and he has another volume in the series on Leviticus coming out soon! To be fair, all of his commentaries are pretty full and don’t show major evidence of haste. Perhaps you might wonder how he chose what went in and what didn’t get into the introduction, but you will love what he did cover. He doesn’t waste words in the commentary proper, but he is never superficial and gives real help throughout.

This volume is now my favorite commentary of his commentaries. To be frank, some were a bit too critical for my taste, especially from someone who is supposed to be in the conservative camp. I thought him conservative as well on his work on Jeremiah, but not nearly as much on Daniel. Unless I am just affected by varying moods when I read, these differences seem real to me. But in this case, here on Ezekiel, there’s not a whole lot that’s going to bother a conservative reader. Maybe too many of us have found him overly critical in some cases, because he himself places this commentary on the “conservative end of the spectrum of Ezekiel scholarship” (page 14).

I always find his work captivating and exquisitely written. That is the case again. I found myself sitting on the porch on a beautiful spring afternoon enjoying reading the introduction to this work. He always gets me thinking and he definitely has not lost his touch in this volume. His scholarly skill was on display too when he talked about, say, the difference between the poetry and prose of Ezekiel. Near the end, he gave something of a dispassionate overview of how Ezekiel has been seen over the years. He even ended the section describing what is to me some of the lunacy of our present time, but he did not seem taken in by it.

The commentary proper was again excellent. Whether he steps back to see the forest or steps closer to see the trees, he gives you things that are truly helpful. I’m a fan of this series, and I mark this one another winner. 

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