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The Rhetorical Use of Didactic Shame Discourse in Ezekiel 36:16-32 Concordia Seminary - Saint Louis Scholarly Resources from Concordia Seminary Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation Concordia Seminary Scholarship 8-1-2012 Honorable Shame: The Rhetorical Use of Didactic Shame Discourse in Ezekiel 36:16-32 Ronald Mudge Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.csl.edu/phd Part of the Biblical Studies Commons Recommended Citation Mudge, Ronald, "Honorable Shame: The Rhetorical Use of Didactic Shame Discourse in Ezekiel 36:16-32" (2012). Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation. 46. https://scholar.csl.edu/phd/46 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Concordia Seminary Scholarship at Scholarly Resources from Concordia Seminary. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Resources from Concordia Seminary. For more information, please contact [email protected]. © 2012 by Ronald Richard Mudge. All rights reserved. To Lisa, 4.341) irpraz CONTENTS TABLES vii PREFACE viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix ABBREVIATIONS xi ABSTRACT xv Chapter INTRODUCTION: OVERVIEW OF THE DISSERTATION 1 The Challenge of Understanding Ezek 36:16-32 1 Other Areas of Inquiry 6 Thesis 8 Methodology within the Context of Current Research 9 Overview of the Chapters 16 1. A STUDY OF THE LOGICAL MATERIAL IN EZEK 36:16-32 20 Rhetorical Unit 21 Rhetorical Situation 28 Choice and Arrangement of the Material 30 Chapter Summary 50 2. THE MEANING AND FUNCTION OF SHAME DISCOURSE IN EZEK 36:16-32 51 A Philological Study of the Shame Lexemes in Ezek 36:16-32 52 The Sociological Functions of Shame Discourse in Ezek 36:16-32 69 Other Scholarly Interpretations of Shame Discourse in Ezek 36:16-32 91 iv Shame and Other Status Discourse 97 Chapter Summary 102 3. YAHWEH AND STATUS IN THE SOCIAL WORLD SURROUNDING EZEK 36:16-32 105 The Impact of Yahweh's Relationship with Israel on His Status 106 Honorable Shame 127 Basic Patterns of the Role of Shame Discourse in the Relationship between Yahweh and Israel 131 A Sociological Study of the Logical Material of Ezek 36:16-32 135 Chapter Summary 148 4. ETHICAL MATERIAL, EMOTIONAL MATERIAL, AND RHETORICAL TECHNIQUES USED FOR PERSUASION IN EZEK 36:16-32 151 Ethical Material 154 Direct and Indirect Emotional Material 157 Rhetorical Techniques Used for Persuasion 174 Chapter Summary 183 5. EZEK 36:16-32 WITHIN THE STRUCTURE AND RHETORICAL STRATEGY OF THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL 185 Ezekiel 1:1-24:27: Sin Described and Judgment Foretold 189 Ezekiel 25:1-32:32: Judging Israel's Enemies 216 Ezekiel 33:1-39:29: Reconciliation Achieved 219 Ezekiel 40:1-48:35: Bearing Shame in the Restoration 235 Chapter Summary 247 CONCLUSION: A SOCIOLOGICAL-RHETORICAL STUDY OF EZEK 36:16-32 249 Summary of the Chapters 249 Conclusions 251 EPILOGUE: EZEKIEL 36:16-32 AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS 259 Appendix 1. el= in the Hebrew Bible Ordered by Form 261 2. 1D17 in the Hebrew Bible Ordered by Form 268 3.thn in the Hebrew Bible Ordered by Form 269 4. TIM in the Hebrew Bible Ordered by Form 272 5.rt5p in the Hebrew Bible Ordered by Form 277 6. Shame Lexemes in the Hebrew Bible Ordered by Citation 279 7. Shame Lexemes in the Hebrew Bible Ordered by Function 293 BIBLIOGRAPHY 307 VITA 328 TABLES Table Page 1. Competing Shame 119 2. Cycle of Conflict between Views of Status 139 vii PREFACE During my service as a missionary in French speaking West Africa, I was astounded at how often my assumptions about relationships proved to be wrong in an African setting. Remarkably, the substance of relationships was quite similar to the substance that I expected from my Western upbringing, but the meaning was different. Time and again I thought that I was sending one message only to find that I had sent a different message. And it was difficult for my African friends to teach me how to relate to others because their assumptions about relationships were as automatic as my own. The issue of relationships slowly became the prominent characteristic among many characteristics of African culture that seemed to offer insight into the world of HB that might be missed because of unconscious Western assumptions. I entered graduate school with the hope that I would be able to use my experiences in Africa to gain a fresh view of the HB. When Dr. Lawrence Boadt suggested that I study Ezek 36:16-32 because of my interest in the role of shame in relationships, I had no idea what a great role this passage would come to play in my life. Ezekiel 36:16-32 turned out to be the perfect text for wrestling with my questions about relationships. Dr. Andrew Bartelt became my doktorvater and submitted my eclectic manner of questioning the text to scholarly rigor. I sought the appropriate method for getting the answers I thought were necessary from the text and ended up with a sociological and rhetorical study of the passage. Dr. Bartelt consistently pressed me to make my work clear to others and to interact with other scholars. I trust that this work accomplishes his goals. viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is my pleasure to thank the many people who have shaped and supported me throughout the dissertation process. My wife, Lisa, provided constant encouragement and patience with this project. My children, Jonah, Isaiah, Ella, Aaron, and Nathan prayed for this dissertation with a childlike faith that gave me confidence under the most challenging of circumstances. My father, Ronald Sr. (d. 1996), gave me the tenacity to finish this project, and my mother, Sidonye, has always expected the best from me. My wife, Lisa's parents, David and Kathy Roslansky, provided endless encouragement, and our extended families also pushed me along. Revs. Desire Tade and Glenn Fluegge, my colleagues from Africa, have shaped me as a person and as a scholar. Dr. Andrew Bartelt formed me and shaped my ideas as we struggled to solve a crux in Ezekiel in a way that would be clear to other scholars and would draw from the work of others. Drs. R. Reed Lessing and Daniel Mattson brought fresh eyes and fresh ideas to our work on this dissertation. Even before dissertation, however, they and Dr. Paul Raabe focused my ideas as we worked through the proposal together. Deaconess Ruth McDonnell and Krista Whittenburg, both of whom have served in the Advanced Studies Department at Concordia Seminary, have helped me immensely with the fine details of the format of the dissertation and the process for completing the project. I have also received help and encouragement from countless others who have walked a similar path: Prof. Charles Schulz, Prof. Brian Mosemann, Dr. InHee Cho, Dr. Richard Blythe, Pastor Michael Hayes, Dr. Philip Penhallegon, Dr. Jason Soenksen, Dr. Thomas Feiertag, Dr. John Oberdeck, Dr. Daniel Paavola, Dr. Timothy Maschke, Pastor Steven Smith, Dr. Albert Garcia, Dr. Joel Elowsky, and Dr. Nathan Jastram. Finally, I thank God for the strength to finish this project and pray that He would use it to accomplish His will. I also ask Him to bless all those mentioned here and those others who are not mentioned but who helped me with this project nonetheless. ix COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BWHEBB [Hebrew] and BWGRKL [Greek] Postscript® Type 1 and TrueType fonts Copyright © 1994-2006 Bible Works, LLC. All rights reserved. These Biblical Greek and Hebrew fonts are used with permission and are from BibleWorks, software for Biblical exegesis and research. x ABBREVIATIONS AB Anchor Bible ABD The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by David Noel Freedman. 6 vols. New York, 1992. ABR Australian Biblical Review ANE Ancient Near East ASTI Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute ATANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten and Neuen Testaments BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research BDB Brown, F., S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford, 1907. BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium BHS Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Edited by K. Elliger and W. Rudolph. 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