Prof. Matthew J. Suriano is an Associate Professor in the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland where he teaches Hebrew Bible, ancient religions, and archaeology. His Ph.D. is from UCLA and he has an M.A. from Jerusalem University College. He was also a visiting graduate student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A former fellow at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, Suriano has participated in several archaeological excavations and surveys in Israel, most recently at Tel Burna where he was a member of the research staff. He has written extensively on death and burial in the ancient world, starting with his first book Politics of Dead Kings (Mohr Siebeck, 2010), which is a revised version of his dissertation. His second book, A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 2018), won the American Society for Overseas Research’s Frank Moore Cross Award.
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Ezekiel’s vision of the dry bones did not assume personal resurrection, a belief that entered Judaism in a later period. In its original context, the imagery of bones rearticulating and coming back to life draws upon the ancient burial practices of Judahite family tombs, offering a message of hope to the exiles in Babylon that YHWH will return them to their land.
Ezekiel’s vision of the dry bones did not assume personal resurrection, a belief that entered Judaism in a later period. In its original context, the imagery of bones rearticulating and coming back to life draws upon the ancient burial practices of Judahite family tombs, offering a message of hope to the exiles in Babylon that YHWH will return them to their land.
