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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...

ὁ λόγος (“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God”). Of the sixty-six books in the Bible, only two begin with sustained exalted language for God: Ezekiel and John.9 In both cases we see a theophanic revelation of God in a terrestrial setting. For John it is the eternal λόγος (logos/Word) embodied in Jesus, whereas in Ezekiel his vision of the chariot-throne reveals the כבוד (kāḇôḏ/glory) of Yahweh. Ezekiel’s vision gives an exalted presentation of Yahweh as
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