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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...

For every alleged parallel idea between John and gnosticism or Hellenism, there is a more sensible one in Judaism in its own conceptual context—the Jewish Bible. If there are shared conceptual similarities between John and Qumran, these similarities do not go any further than the same pool into which they both reached for their ideas—Israel’s Scriptures.8 Saeed Hamid-Khani’s assertion is indeed correct when it comes to looking for influences on the Fourth Gospel. And
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