In 2020, a handbook for Ezekiel came out. I haven't, and maybe can't, read all of it. I may not need to - Dalit Rom-Shiloni produced what is certainly one of the best chapters in it, "Ezekiel among the Exiles".
This sets the prophet in the community of Jehoiachin. The prophet may or may not love that king, but he - famously - is clear about what he hates. That would be Jerusalem: whether this be the kingdom of the Babylonians' stooges, or the province now inhabited by subjects ("servitors", Carl Sargent might say).
We also get several Akkadian loans and calques. Like the Babylonian barber the gallâb[u]. At least Dan knew of people who performed this task (Judges 16:19) and one has to assume so did Israel recording Samson's legend at Tel Dan, and then Judah accepting their exiles. Well... Ezekiel didn't want Israel's barber.
I don't see where Ezekiel and other Persian-era prophets like 2 Isaiah react to one another, and Rom-Shiloni doesn't mention any. Of Persian tropes, the critic must note that KBR canal. We concede the rarity of this or any other such trope, compare Daniel. Rom-Shiloni would likely dismiss such as gloss.
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