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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
As introduction to the topic may serve two remarks, one about the meaning and importance of the expression ‘Deuteropauline Letters’, and one about the historical and theological background of the question of the relationship between church and Israel.
1 The prominent theologian is Arthur C. Headlam (1862–1947), the remark was originally (1913) directed against the expression ‘Paulinism’, and I took it from Morgan's, Robert C. article on ‘The Significance of “Paulinism”,’ in: Paul and Paulinism. Essays in honour of C. K. Barrett, ed. by Hooker, M. D. and Wilson, S. G., London: SPCK, 1982, 320–338, 320.Google Scholar
2 Dodd, Charles Harold, ‘The Mind of Paul: II (1934)’, in: id., New Testament Studies, Manchester University Press, 1953, 83–128, 106f.Google Scholar
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5 Parkes, James gives a good introduction to this in his preface to Antisemitism and the Foundations of Christianity, ed. by Davies, Alan, New York et al.: Paulist Press, 1979, pp. V–XI.Google Scholar
6 Cf. the three volumes of Jewish and Christian Self-Definition, ed. by Sanders, Ed P. et al. , Philadelphia: Fortress/ London: SCM, 1980, 1981, 1982Google Scholar; Mussner, Franz, Tractate on the Jews. The Significance of Judaism for Christian Faith, Philadelphia: Fortress/London: SPCK, 1984Google Scholar; the two volumes of Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity, ed. by Richardson, Peter et al. , Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1986Google Scholar; Earfy Judaism and Its Modem Interpreters, ed. by Kraft, Robert A. and Nickelsburg, George W. E., Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1986.Google Scholar
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8 Cf. Martin Rese, ‘Die Vorzüge Israels in Röm. 9, 4f. und Eph. 2, 12. Exegetische Anmerkungen zum Thema Kirche und Israel’, ThZ (Basel) 31, 1975, 211–222; id., ‘Die Rettung der juden nach Römer 11’, in: L ‘Apôtre Paul. Personnalit-, style, et conception du ministère (BEThL 73), par A. Vanhoye et al., Leuven: University Press, 1986, 422–430; id., ‘Israel und Kirche in Römer 9’, NTS 34, 1988, 208–217.
9 Since verse 13 is directed at Gentile Christians, verse 12 refers to Jewish Christians, as has rightly been observed by many commentators since Chrysostom.
10 So Schnackenburg, Rudolf, Der Brief an die Ephesar (EKK X), Zürich et al.: Benziger/Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1982, 109.Google Scholar
11 So Barth, Markus, Ephesians (AncB 54), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974, 269f. and note 71.Google Scholar
12 So Schnackenburg, I.c.. 120f.
13 By the expression ‘atheoi’ the author does not want to state that the Gentile Christians were atheists, but that they were separated from the God of Israel.
14 Cf. Barrett, Charles Kingsley, A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ramans (BNTC), London: Black, 1957, Reprint 1975, 179.Google Scholar
15 Schlier, Heinrich, Der Brief an die Epheser. Ein Kommentar, Düsseldorf: Patmos, 1957, 120.Google Scholar
16 As does Barth, Markus, The People of God (JSNT suppl. ser. 5), Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1983, 48.Google Scholar
17 O'Neill, John C., ‘The Source of Christology in Colossians’, NTS26, 1980, 87–100.Google Scholar
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19 Cf. Exodus 19, 5; 23, 22 (LXX); Deuteronomy 14, 2; 26, 18.
20 Richardson, o.c, 159 note 6.
21 Richardson, o.c, 159 note 6.
