<Li> The final temple vision, in which Ezekiel sees a new commonwealth centered around a new temple in Jerusalem, sometimes called the Third Temple, to which God's Shekinah (Divine Presence) has returned (Ezekiel 40--48) </Li> <P> The Book of Ezekiel describes itself as the words of the Ezekiel ben - Buzi, a priest living in exile in the city of Babylon between 593 and 571 BCE . Most scholars today accept the basic authenticity of the book, but see in it significant additions by a "school" of later followers of the original prophet . While the book exhibits considerable unity and probably reflects much of the historic Ezekiel, it is the product of a long and complex history and does not necessarily preserve the very words of the prophet . </P> <P> According to the book that bears his name, Ezekiel ben - Buzi was born into a priestly family of Jerusalem c. 623 BCE, during the reign of the reforming king Josiah . Prior to this time, Judah had been a vassal of the Assyrian empire, but the rapid decline of Assyria after c. 630 led Josiah to assert his independence and institute a religious reform stressing loyalty to Yahweh, the national God of Israel . Josiah was killed in 609 and Judah became a vassal of the new regional power, the Neo-Babylonian empire . In 597, following a rebellion against Babylon, Ezekiel was among the large group of Judeans taken into captivity by the Babylonians . He appears to have spent the rest of his life in Mesopotamia . A further deportation of Jews from Jerusalem to Babylon occurred in 586 when a second unsuccessful rebellion resulted in the destruction of the city and its Temple and the exile of the remaining elements of the royal court, including the last scribes and priests . The various dates given in the book suggest that Ezekiel was 25 when he went into exile, 30 when he received his prophetic call, and 52 at the time of the last vision c. 571 . </P> <P> The Jewish scriptures were translated into Greek in the two centuries immediately before the birth of Christ . The Greek version of these books is called the Septuagint . The Jewish Bible in Hebrew is called the Masoretic text (meaning passing down after a Hebrew word Masorah; for Jewish scholars and rabbis curated and commented on the text). The Greek (Septuagint) version of Ezekiel differs considerably from the Hebrew (Masoretic) version--it is shorter and possibly represents an early interpretation of the book we have today (according to the masoretic tradition)--while other ancient manuscript fragments differ from both . </P>

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