Ezekiel

thumb|''Ezekiel's Vision (Raphael)|Ezekiel's Vision'' by [[Raphael, ]] Ezekiel, also spelled Ezechiel (; ; ), was an Israelite priest. The Book of Ezekiel, relating his visions and acts, is named after him.

prophet mentioned in the Quran

thumb|upright=1.3|A traditional depiction of the Merkabah|chariot vision, based on the description in Ezekiel, with an opan on the left side The ophanim ( , ; singular: ), alternatively spelled auphanim or ofanim, and also called galgalim ( , ; singular: ), refer to the wheels seen in Ezekiel's vision of the chariot (Hebrew ) in . One of the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q405) construes them as angels; late sections of the Book of Enoch (61:10, 71:7) portray them as a class of celestial beings who (along with the Cherubim and Seraphim) never sleep, but guard the throne of God. In some systems of Christia

mausoleum in Al Kifl, Iraq

Jewish text written between 50BCE−70CE asserting bodily resurrection

shrine in former synagogue