The most influential modern scholarly work on Ezekiel, Walther Zimmerli's two-volume commentary, appeared in German in 1969 and in English in 1979 and 1983. Zimmerli traces the process by which Ezekiel's oracles were delivered orally and transformed into a written text by the prophet and his followers through a process of ongoing re-writing and re-interpretation.
Walther Zimmerli, a prominent scholar on Ezekiel, published a two-volume commentary in German in 1969 and in English in 1979 and 1983. His work explores how Ezekiel's prophetic pronouncements were initially delivered orally before being transcribed into written form by the prophet and his followers through a continuous cycle of revisions and reinterpretations.