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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...

John 15 also shares broad themes with Ezekiel’s vine images. John’s judgment on the fruitless branches has strong verbal parallels with the judgment on Jerusalem in Ezekiel 15, and the themes of the two images resonate as well. The main point of Ezekiel 15 is that the faithlessness of Jerusalem (Ezek. 15:8) has resulted in worthlessness and therefore judgment (Ezek. 15:4–6). In John 15, the judged branches fail to abide in Jesus (faithlessness) and thus produce no fruit (worthlessness) and are judged.
Pages 142–143
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