Abstract
Preaching is in trouble today. On some level, this is always the case, and in this article I consider the problems of contemporary preaching with another preacher, from another time and place: Ezekiel ben Buzi. Ezekiel’s modes of prophetic signification constitute radically performative acts of sermonic discourse, and as such, they are able to instruct those using signs to communicate today. Instead of arguing that we should do what Ezekiel did, I suggest that Ezekiel opens a mode of discourse—obscure preaching—that overcomes the homiletical confines of logocentrism, opening a way of preaching to postmoderns.
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