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Written by an international team of leading scholars, this volume is a comprehensive exploration of the role and work of the Holy Spirit, as witnessed in both the Old and New Testaments. With contributions by Craig Bartholomew, Gary Burge, James D. G. Dunn, Walter Kaiser, Wonsuk Ma, and Matthias Wenk, among others, this authoritative survey will rapidly establish itself as a standard reference...

7:15 and nishmat ruach, Gen. 7:22). Animals, birds and creeping things were also called ‘living creature(s)’ (Hebrew, nephesh hayyim), but again, only humans are said to be in God’s image (cf. Job 26:4; 27:3; Isa. 42:5). The distinction between humankind and all the other breathing creatures was that humans had the divine breath directly breathed into them by God. Furthermore, God shared his image and likeness with humankind, but this feature was not shared with the animals. Since God also was spirit,
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