Ezekiel's Historical Background (Cont...)

  How did these two new factors---the military situation and the prophets' conviction that the relationship had ended---affect Isarael's traditions? These two factors severely damaged the

credibility of the traditions, for the usual version of the national story, preserved in such psalms as 105, 114, and 136, proclaimed that the Lord set Israel apart for himself, freed them from Egyptian bondage, and gave them the Promised Land.

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