Revd. E. C. John (8 November 1927 – 29 October 2020) was an Indian Old Testament scholar and a member of the Society for Biblical Studies in India. He was also a member of the George Bell Institute at the University of Chichester, Chichester and the Society for Old Testament Study, England. He was acknowledged for his scholarship of the Old Testament. G. Babu Rao, one of his earliest pupils specializing in the Old Testament wrote that his Professor, E. C. John pointed out parallels for Epiphany and Theophany from Vaishnavism and Saivism respectively. Writings Books written 1968, Death and life in the prophecy of judgment with reference to Amos, Hosea, Isaiah and Jeremiah, 1983, The Servant of the Lord (Meditations on the Prophets), 1999 (with Juliane Hanna John nee Ehrenberg), To Tell of the Struggle is a Struggle: Resistance, Protest and Witness during the Third Reich, Books edited 2006 (with Samson Prabhakar), Christian Identity and Cultural Nationalism: Challenges and Opportunities, Articles 1954, On Reviving the Peace Movement for World Peace, UTC (Bangalore) and World Council of Churches (Geneva). 1969, Forgiveness in the Prophecy of Judgment, 1971, Divine Manifestations, 1974, Old Testament understanding of death, 1977, Righteousness in the prophets, 1977, Life and Death in Old Testament Research, 1978, Theological Research and the Churches in India: Old Testament, 1984, Israel and Inculturation: An Appraisal, 1984, Fellowship in the Holy Spirit - Biblical Perspectives, 1985, A vision for the future, 2004, The Reception of the Old Testament in India, 2007, Reading the Old Testament from a Dalit Perspective, Studies After completing graduate studies in sciences leading to B.Sc., E. C. John chose Priesthood as a full time vocation and went for Spiritual formation in Bangalore. Spiritual studies E. C. John studied theology at the United Theological College, Bengaluru from 1951 to 1954 when Max Hunter Harrison was its Principal. From 1954 to 1957 he served as a Presbyter of the Church of South India in Tiruvalla. Advanced spiritual studies In 1957 he was sent to the University of Cambridge, Cambridge where he pursued both graduate and postgraduate studies leading to B. A. (1959) and M. A. (1963) specializing in Old Testament (MA Tripos part iii). During E. C. John's stay at the University of Cambridge, the decennial Lambeth Conference took place which E. C. John attended it as a guest along with Leslie Brown, and Lesslie Newbigin. Doctoral research While teaching