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Gli oracoli di distruzione contro l’Egitto Ez 29–32 alla luce della retorica ebraica

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Commentators of the Book of Ezekiel achieved different results when it comes to the structures of the oracle. This was the context of the research undertaken. The aim was to develop the structures of the oracle according to the scientific method by Roland Meynet. The research was based on «analysis of the biblical text by the method of Hebrew rhetoric». As a result of the research, it was discovered that there are six (rather than seven) oracles. The first three oracles have parallel structures, the next three have parallel-concentric structures. It was also possible to discover numerical systems that either confirm the content of the text or introduce new information that is not written in words. From the research carried out, it must be concluded that examining only four of the forty-eight chapters in Ezekiel is too small a sample of the text to draw any overall conclusions. The remaining chapters of Ezekiel should therefore be studied using the method of «Hebrew rhetoric» also known as «new rhetoric».