Raised Up From Our Graves

Ezekiel’s vision of the Valley of Dry Bones is a favorite of many. It inspired the spiritual, ‘Dem Bones’, written and composed by James and Rosamond Johnson and first performed in 1928. ... Although the immediate context of Ezekiel’s vision is the restoration of Israel from Babylonian Cap- tivity, the ultimate meaning of the vision is the realization of the New Jerusalem with a literal, general bodily resurrection of the dead with the redeemed inheriting the Kingdom...