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7 - Colossians and Ephesians

from Part II - The Pauline Letter Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2020

By
Sylvia C. Keesmaat
Edited by
Bruce W. Longenecker
Bruce W. Longenecker
Affiliation:
Baylor University, Texas
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Summary

The letters of Colossians and Ephesians explore cosmic questions about the shape of the world, its origin and its goal: which god controls history so as to bring salvation and blessing? What kind of political body does this god shape? And how could this community live in such a way that this god could be seen in their midst?

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Roman Empirereconciliationpeacemakingsuffering
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The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul , pp. 135 - 151
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Further Reading

Ávila Arteaga, Mariano. Efesios: Introducción y comentario. Tomos I y II. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Kairós, 2018.Google Scholar
Fowl, Stephen. Ephesians: A Commentary. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2012.Google Scholar
Harrison, James R., and Welborn, L. L., eds. The First Urban Churches 3: Ephesus. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2018.Google Scholar
Huttner, Ulrich. Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley. Translated by Green, David. Leiden: Brill, 2013.Google Scholar
Long, Frederick J. “Ephesians: Paul’s Political Theology in Greco-Roman Context.” In Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture: Social and Literary Contexts for the New Testament, edited by Porter, Stanley E. and Pitts, Andrew W., 255–309. Leiden: Brill, 2012.Google Scholar
Long, Frederick J. “Roman Imperial Rule under the Authority of Jupiter-Zeus: Political-Religious Contexts and the Interpretation of ‘The Ruler of the Authority of the Air’ in Ephesians 2:2.” In The Language of the New Testament: Context, History, Development, edited by Porter, Stanley E., 113–154. Leiden: Brill, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MacDonald, Margaret Y. Colossians and Ephesians. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2000.Google Scholar
MacDonald, Margaret Y. “Slavery, Sexuality and House Churches: A Reassessment of Colossians 3.18–4.1 in Light of New Research on the Roman Family.” New Testament Studies 53 (2007): 94–113.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maier, Harry O. Picturing Paul in Empire: Imperial Image, Text and Persuasion in Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013.Google Scholar
Myers, Ched, and Enns, Elaine. Ambassadors of Reconciliation: Vol. I: New Testament Reflections on Restorative Justice and Peacemaking. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2009.Google Scholar
Price, S. R. F. Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.Google Scholar
Smith, R. R. R. “The Imperial Reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias.” Journal of Roman Studies 77 (1987): 88–138.Google Scholar
Smith, R. R. R. “Simulacra Gentium: The Ethnē from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias.” Journal of Roman Studies 78 (1988): 50–77.Google Scholar
Sumney, Jerry L. Colossians: A Commentary. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2008.Google Scholar
Walsh, Brian J., and Keesmaat, Sylvia C.. Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004.Google Scholar

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