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In my work for the RADHEART-project, titled Mirrors of the Heart: Ezekiel Traditions and Radical Religion in Second Temple Judaism, I am looking into the Masoretic text of Ezekiel, along other Ezekiel traditions such as fragments from Qumran and Ezekiel in the Septuagint. My work explores the character of Ezekiel as a model for individual strong commitment, and as a pull-factor towards radical religion in the late Second Temple period. 

Does the book of Ezekiel, and Ezekiel-traditions more widely express radical habits of the heart? If so, how are they expressed? How are they cultivated? What is the role of embodied and emotional expressions in ideals of strong individual commitment in Ezekiel-traditions? And how do these relate to Ezekiel’s visions? How is the self cultivated within ideals of strong individual commitment in Ezekiel traditions? Are Ezekiel-traditions, in their literary and traditional context, expressions of radical religion, both in emic and etic terms? Do we find that the models of strong commitment expressed in Ezekiel are received and used in other texts or amongst Judean communities in the Second Temple period? And can we say anything about how the text of Ezekiel, particularly the parts dealing with Ezekiel's mission and visions of punishment and redemption, would have affected its ancient readers/receivers?

RADHEART - Radical Habits of the Heart

Mirrors of the Heart: Ezekiel Traditions and Radical Religion in Second Temple Judaism