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Carefully mine the New Testament gospels and the book of Acts to understand what the Holy Spirit meant in the lives of early believers with Craig Keener. Christianity did not arise in a vacuum, but rather it appropriated, modified, and utilized the Jewish understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit. By understanding the world in which Christianity emerged, we can better understand the earliest...

function of the Spirit of God only occurs when expounding the OT texts that speak of it.26 More common, however, are references to the Spirit of God or Holy Spirit as the Spirit that purifies.27 This also has OT roots, perhaps in the image of prophetic empowerment leading to transformation of character,28 but especially in the image of eschatological cleansing by God’s Spirit portrayed as water.29 Although the image of cleansing by water representing the Spirit is not frequent in early Jewish texts,
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