تقييم لنبوءة حزقيال على صور في ضوء الأدلة التوراتية و الأثرية

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This study is entitled ( Ezekiel's Prophecy against Tyre in the Light of the Archaeological and Biblical Evidence) .

Ezekiel's Prophecy against Tyre referred to in the Chapters ( 26 – 28 ) is one of the most complicated prophecies in the Old Testament ( the Hebrew Bible , Torah ) , except that of Gog and Magog , as it is seen as a sort of divination ( prediction and foretelling ) which was not fulfilled though it was told by a Hebrew prophet as revealed to him by the Lord .The problem of this Prophecy arises from the fact that he predicted Tyr's destruction and eternal removal during the campaign of Nebuchadnezzar II , king of Babylon , because the Lord God became angry when Tyre felt happiness and said that the wealth and merchandise of Jerusalem would turn to her when Jerusalem fell under the hand of the Babylonians .

This Prophecy , However , was not fulfilled as we said above according to what the prophet foretold under the claim ( excuse ) that the God had changed His Prophecy ; i.e.

the doom against Tyre by leading the King of Babylon towards Egypt to be his new army's wage ( that is booty / profit ) .

We focused in this study on the style , the historical formula and the symbolism of the text , the partial fulfillment , pointing out the unequal archaeological and Biblical evidence with Ezekiel's prophecy against Tyre .

For example , The Books of Isaiah , Jeremiah , Ezra and Zechariah as well as the Cuneiform and classical sources do not prove the final existence of Tyre after the date of the prophecy ( ca.

571 BC ) .

They , on the contrary , confirm the existence of Tyre and her people exercising their role in trade and navigation till the latter periods that preceded the Christian Era .

Our criticism , or rather , argument was according to the historical objectivity and integrity in order to clarify the reality of prophecy in parallel with the historical view based on synchronic sources concerning the same events ; the campaigns of Nebuchadnezzar against Tyre , Egypt and the coastal lands as well.