Ezekiel as a Surrealist Author: 20th Century Art as a Key to a 6th Century BC Prophet

Abstract

ABSTRACT In Ezekiel’s extensive vision reports, reality is combined with the supra-mundane world in a way which resembles modern surrealism, especially as a literary art form. The comparison with surrealism helps to get a better understanding of the visions. The combination of realistic and surrealistic images has a shocking affect and revolutionizes human understanding and experience. In this way, the audience is challenged to remodel its understanding of reality.