Sentences with phrase «valley of dry bones»

He begins again to tell the story of God's plan to restore all of creation, from the covenant with Abraham to the exodus from Egypt, from Ezekiel's valley of dry bones to Isaiah's suffering servant.

Perhaps in another post I'll go into a set of three incredible sermons presented at the heart of it, one of which is nothing less than Ellison's mytho - poetic history of the American Negro, with Ezekiel's «valley of the dry bones» passage playing a central role.

This is the well - known vision of what took place in the valley of dry bones as described in Ezekiel 37.

Ezekiel, after the blow had fallen upon the nation and the exile had destroyed any lingering glory of the house of Israel, portrayed an unquenchable hope in the vision of the valley of dry bones that by the power, of God were made to rise up and live again (Ezek.

With breath, the Creator kindled the stars, parted a sea, woke a valley of dry bones, inspired a sacred text.

Nowhere is this brought out more emphatically than in the vision of the valley of dry bones (ch.

Levenson leads us through some deft readings of biblical passages - the first clear articulation of resurrection, in Daniel 12, the revival episode in 2 Kings 4, and the vision of the valley of dry bones blossoming into life in Ezekiel 37 - to prove that resurrection is hardly a foreign idea.