This course is dedicated to selected prophecies from the Book of Ezekiel, the Jerusalemite priest who was deported, with the Jehoiachin exiles, to Babylonia, where he got his prophetic mission. With great rhetorical talent (which was recognized already in his life-time), Ezekiel formulated a theological world of thought that could face the atrocities of destruction and dislocation by the early sixth century BCE. A central topic in his prophecies is the need to re-establish the identity of the community of exiles as “the people” of God. We will follow the major ideological (and theological) steps Ezekiel took: His discussions of the presence of God – in the temple or in heaven, in Jerusalem or in Babylon; conceptions of God, portraying him as warrior, judge, and as the God of his people; divine justice; the status of each of the Judean communities before God, their past, and the future prospects that awaits each of the two. We will study how Ezekiel structured a Babylonian exilic ideology, that could give hope to the Jehoiachin exiles, and that cuts off hope in Jerusalem; and we will ask: Did Ezekiel know the Babylonian society, and was he part of it and of its culture?