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John’s Use of Ezekiel: Understanding the Unique Perspective of the Fourth Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Scholars have long puzzled over the distinctive themes and sequence of John’s narrative in contrast to the accounts in the Synoptic Gospels. Brian Neil Peterson offers an explanation for some of the most unusual features of the Fourth Gospel, including the exalted language of the Johannine prologue, the use of imagery and prophecy, the early placement of Jesus’ “cleansing” of the temple and his...

likely option for a reference work.18 Thus, when John uses the terms γραφή (graphē “Scripture” cf. John 2:22; 7:38, 42; 10:35; 13:18; 17:12; 19:24, 28, 36, 37; 20:9) or γράμμα (gramma “writings” [of Moses] cf. 5:47); they almost exclusively refer to the “Holy Scripture.”19 John’s frequent use of these terms serves as a clue as to his literary purview as he is writing, namely, that he has a view to the Hebrew Bible when he is writing his gospel. Now, I do not mean to suggest that scholars have failed
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