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Document Details : Title: Encore une fois les 153 poissons (Jn 21,11) Author(s): RASTOIN, Marc Journal: Biblica Volume: 90 Issue: 1 Date: 2009 Pages: 84-92 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.90.1.3188895 Abstract : The number of fishes in Joh 21,11 has been a crux for the interpreters of the Fourth Gospel. If the theological meaning of the scene seemed to be clear enough — an allusion to the universality of salvation brought by Christ — the why of the number 153 tried the imagination of scholars since Augustine. This note intends to add several arguments to the proposition made by J. Emerton in 1958 that this number refers to Ez 47,1-12. The link between both passages becomes much easier to make and the theological coherence of this allusion within Johannine global theological framework appears more clearly. |
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