The Egyptian leviathan

In Ezekiel 20, 23, 29-32 are oracles against Egypt and her allies in Judah. Safwat Marzouk argues they were delivered against king Jehoiakim and his successors from 597 BC on.

First up: this should be contemporary with Jeremiah. Second, I'd always figured Ezekiel for an exile-prophet (with little tolerance for the natives).

Marzouk claims the Pentateuch never accuses Israel of worshiping Egyptian gods. This has some kernel of truth inasmuch as the Torah must deal with the tabernacle among other Egyptology which Sigmund Freud detected. For one, er... circumcision is Egyptian. There's some nostalgia for Egypt. Calum Carmichael might quibble that some Priestly and/or Holiness passages subvert Egyptian religious practices.

Although admittedly the Torah narrative more-directly hits the Canaanites. This is possibly inherited from the basal text of Judges-Reigns.

Under some of the Persians and all the Seleucids, a border separated Egypt from Aram-plus-Canaan. When Egypt was stronger, as under Psamtik and Hophra/Apries and the Ptolemies, a different border separated Jerusalem from the Syrians. So it could go either way.

Marzouk's argument works better for Ezekiel 17's parable about the two eagles. And now I wonder what 2 Isaiah's pro-Cyrus brief chs 40-55 owed to Ezekiel.