Jews, Gentiles and Ethnic Reconciliation ：Paul's Jewish identity and Ephesians ( Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series )

Publication subTitle ：Paul's Jewish identity and Ephesians

Publication series ：Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series

Author： Tet-Lim N. Yee;  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2005

E-ISBN: 9781316938829

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521838313

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780521838313

Subject： B971.2 New Testament

Keyword： 宗教

Language： ENG

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Study of Ephesians 2 that reassesses first-century Christian and Jewish relations. Much recent scholarship has focused on Paul's insistence on Gentile membership of the people of God equally with Jews. This book contributes to the continuing reassessment of Christian and Jewish self-understanding during the latter decades of the first century and reveals how a distinctively Jewish world view underlies Ephesians 2. Much recent scholarship has focused on Paul's insistence on Gentile membership of the people of God equally with Jews. This book contributes to the continuing reassessment of Christian and Jewish self-understanding during the latter decades of the first century and reveals how a distinctively Jewish world view underlies Ephesians 2. Much scholarship has focused on Paul's insistence on Gentile membership of the people of God equally with Jews. Dr Yee's study of Ephesians 2 reveals how the distinctively Jewish world view of the author of Ephesians underlies this key text. He explores how the Ephesians' author provides a resolution to one of the thorniest issues regarding two ethnic groups in the earliest period of Christianity: can Jew and Gentile, the two estranged human groups, be one (people of God) and if so, how? Setting Ephesians 2 as fully as possible into its historical context, he describes some of the relevant Jewish features and demonstrates them, revealing many explosive but hidden issues. This book provides an important contribution to the continuing reassessment of Christian and Jewish self-understanding in regard to each other during the critical period of the latter decades of the first century CE. Foreword J. D. G. Dunn; 1. Introduction; 2. Continuity or discontinuity? The new perspective on Ephesians, with reference to Ephesians 2:1–10; 3. 'You who were called the uncircumcision by the circumcision': Jews, gentiles and covenantal ethnocentrism (Ephesians 2:11–13); 4. 'He is our peace': Christ and ethnic reconciliation (Ephesians 2:14–18); 5. Israel and the new temple (Ephesians 2:19–22); 6. Summary and conclusions. Review of the hardback: 'It is always stimulating to read a contribution to the highly acclaimed SNTS monograph series. Yee's volume is a revised version of his doctoral thesis … Yee's book provides a good overview of previous discussion on Ephesians 2 and offers important exegetical insights.' Expository Times Review of the hardback: '… a detailed study of Eph. 2. … well written, well argued and thoroughly researched.' Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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Cover

Half-title

Series-title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS

1 Introduction

1.1 The problem

1.2 The justification of the present study

1.2.1 A ‘Gentile Christianity’ drifted from its mooring in the Jewish tradition?

1.2.2 The equalising of the Gentiles with the Jews?

1.2.3 Israel, Gentiles and the Church: continuity or discontinuity?

1.2.4 The alienation between Jews and Christians?

1.2.5 Ethno-cultural conflict between Jews and Greeks?

1.2.6 The form-critical analysis of Ephesians 2.1–22

1.2.7 The cancellation of time in Ephesians?

1.2.8 Weltangst in Asia Minor

1.2.9 Linguistics and metalinguistics

1.2.10 The language of ‘powers’ in Ephesians

1.2.11 Locating Ephesians within a Jewish context

1.2.12 The new perspective on Ephesians

1.3 The need for this study

1.4 Aims, plan and presuppositions of the present study

2 CONTINUITY OR DISCONTINUITY? THE NEW PERSPECTIVE ON EPHESIANS, WITH REFERENCE TO EPHESIANS 2.1–10

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Locating Ephesians within a Jewish context

2.3 The new perspective on Ephesians 2.1–10

2.3.1 A Jewish representation of the Gentile ‘other’

2.3.2 The rhetoric of admission and conciliation

2.3.3 The saving grace of God in Christ

2.4 Conclusion

3 ‘YOU WHO WERE CALLED THE UNCIRCUMCISION BY THE CIRCUMCISION’: JEWS, GENTILES AND COVENANTAL ETHNOCENTRISM…

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Gentiles as the Jews saw them (v. 11)

3.2.1…(v. 11a)

3.2.2…(v. 11b)

3.2.3…(v. 11c)

3.3 Jews, Gentiles and ethnic ethnocentrism (vv. 12–13a)

3.3.1…(v. 12a)

3.3.2…(v. 12b)

3.3.3…(v. 12c)

3.4 ‘But now you who were far off are made near’: the ‘us-them’ polarity deconstructed

3.4.1…(v. 13)

3.5 Concluding remarks

4 ‘HE IS OUR PEACE’: CHRIST AND ETHNIC RECONCILIATION (EPHESIANS 2.14–18)

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The literary structure of Ephesians 2.14–18

4.3 Ephesians 2.14–18: an amplification of the laudable act of Christ

4.4 ‘He is our peace’: Christ and ethnic reconciliation

4.4.1…(v. 14a–b)

4.4.2… (v. 14c)

4.4.3…(v. 14d)

4.4.4…(vv. 14d–15a)

4.4.5…(v. 15b)

4.4.6…(v. 15c)

4.4.7…(v. 16)

4.4.8…(v. 17)

4.4.9…(v. 18)

4.5 Conclusion

5 ISRAEL AND THE NEW TEMPLE (EPHESIANS 2.19–22)

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Israel redefined: the Gentiles are fellow-citizens with the ‘holy ones’

5.2.1…(v. 19a)

5.3 The Gentiles are God’s own and the holy dwelling of God

5.3.1…(vv. 19b–20a)

5.3.2…(v. 20a)

5.3.3…(v. 20b)

5.3.4…(vv. 21–2)

5.4 Concluding remarks

6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

6.1 Concluding remarks

6.2 Exegetical implications

6.3 Some questions for further research

6.3.1 Israel and the ‘Church’(?)

6.3.2 The ‘household of God’ and the Ephesian Haustafel

6.3.3 The language of warfare and consolidation of the Gentiles’ new identity

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

SUBJECT INDEX

INDEX OF SCRIPTURES AND OTHER ANCIENT WRITINGS

The Old Testament

The New Testament

Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and other Jewish writings

Apocrypha

Pseudepigrapha

Dead Sea Scrolls and related texts

Philo

Josephus

Rabbinic literature

Other ancient and early Christian writings

Inscriptions and papyri

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