If he has not usually been seen this way, that may be because we have not paid sufficient attention to the scriptural echoes he sets up in many places in his writings, but particularly in the very passage we have been studying.
Tom Wright is here explicitly saying that we may not have paid attention to the biblical echoes in Paul's account of his conversion. We need to hear the voice of Ezekiel. We need to see Paul as annointed and called to be a prophet, a teacher of Israel but now reaching out to the whole world.
