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Echoes of a Prophet: The Use of Ezekiel in the Gospel of John and in Literature of the Second Temple Period is unavailable, but you can change that!

Echoes of a Prophet examines intertextual connections to Ezekiel found in John and in Second Temple literature. The Dead Sea Scrolls contain many allusions to a number of Ezekiel’s oracles, while other Second Temple works refer to only a few of Ezekiel’s oracles, and those only rarely. In each case, Manning examines the evidence for the presence of the allusions, studies the implied...

3. Water and the Spirit John’s connection of water with the Spirit is perhaps the most difficult material in John for which to establish OT parallels. The main reason for this difficulty is that water in John is more of a symbol derived from the OT than an allusion to particular OT passages. Allusions are intended to recall particular passages of Scripture. When a particular image or phrase has been the subject of allusions by several other authors, that image or phrase begins to cross over to the
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