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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...

Chapter 4 ALLUSIONS TO EZEKIEL IN JOHN: MAJOR ALLUSIONS In Chapters 2 and 3, we examined allusions to Ezekiel in the literature of the Second Temple period to try to discern the range of ways that Ezekiel was understood and used. Observations from those chapters will provide a background against which to observe John’s understanding and use of Ezekiel. In Chapter 4, we will look at John’s two clearest allusions to Ezekiel: the Good Shepherd discourse (Jn 10:1–30) and the Vine discourse (Jn 15:1–10).
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