Jews, Gentiles and Ethnic Reconciliation: Paul's Jewish identity and Ephesians

by Tet-Lim N. Yee

Overview

Exhaustive recent scholarship has focused on Paul's insistence that Gentiles be granted equal status with the Jews as members of the people of God. Tet-Lim Yee's study of Ephesians 2 reveals how the distinctively Jewish world view underlies this key text and he highlight's the reconciling work of Christ for both Jew and Gentile. His study represents an important contribution to the continuing reassessment of Christian and Jewish interaction during the critical period of the latter decades of the first century CE.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521838313
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/10/2005
Series:	Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series , #130
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Tet-Lim N. Yee is Research Director, City and Culture Research Centre, Malaysia and also Honorary Research Associate, Theology Division, Chung-Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"[Yee's] work constitutes a vitally important engagement with Ephesians, which future scholarship on the letter simply cannot ignore."
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

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