Studies in Ephesians

Introduction Questions, Text- and Edition-Critical Issues, Interpretation of Texts and Themes
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-3-16-147197-1
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 131, 548 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 164 mm, Gewicht: 986 g

Reihe: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

This volume of collected essays on Ephesians is divided into three sections. The first part deals thoroughly with introductory questions such as composition and style, the relationship to other Early Christian literature and Qumran, authorship (with a new suggestion), addressees and social setting. In the second part the extensive history of Early Christian texts and editions (in the Muratorian canon, the Marcionite prologues and the Euthalian apparatus) with special regard to Ephesians is investigated. The third part is dedicated to the interpretation of texts and themes of special importance for the understanding of this pseudo-pauline letter by one of Paul's younger disciples and co-workers. Here the theological and liturgical setting is reflected upon. Through all the detailed scrutiny of the history and the semantics of the epistle to the Ephesians, the question of its illocutionary function remains in focus. Not only what the auctor of Ephesians says in his letter but what he does by saying it is the central issue in Nils Alstrup Dahl's life-long interest in this intriguing letter. More than half of these essays have never been published before, and one essay is translated from Norwegian into English for the first time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dahl, Nils A.

Blomkvist, V.

Fornberg, Tord

Hellholm, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
I. Introductory Questions
Einleitungsfragen zum Epheserbrief - Ephesians and Qumran
II. Ephesians in Texts and Editions of the Corpus Paulinum
Welche Ordnung der Paulusbriefe wird vom Muratorischen Kanon vorausgesetzt? - The Particularity of the Pauline Epistles as a Problem in the Ancient Church - The Origin of the Earliest Prologues to the Pauline Letters - 0230 (= PSI 1306) and the Fourth-Century Greek-Latin Edition of the Letters of Paul - The 'Euthalian Apparatus' and Affiliated 'Argumenta'
III. Interpretation of Texts and Themes
Benediction and Congratulation - Das Proömium des Epheserbriefes - Der Epheserbrief und der verlorene, erste Brief des Paulus an die Korinther - Das Geheimnis der Kirche nach Epheser 3,8-10 - Cosmic Dimensions and Religious Knowledge (Eph 3:18) - Kleidungsmetaphern: der alte und der neue Mensch - The Concept of Baptism in Ephesians - Gentiles, Christians, and Israelites in the Epistle to the Ephesians - Interpreting Ephesians: Then and Now

Epheserstudien. Einführende Fragen, Text- und Editionskritik, Auslegung der Texte und Themen. Herausgegeben von David Hellholm, Vemund Blomkvist und Tord Fornberg.

Dieser Sammelband von Aufsätzen über den Epheserbrief ist in drei Abschnitten aufgeteilt. Der erste Abschnitt befaßt sich gründlich mit einführenden Fragen des Aufbaus und des Stils, der Beziehung zur anderen frühchristlichen Literatur und zu Qumran, der Autorschaft, der Adressaten und des sozialen Umfelds. Der zweite Abschnitt enthält eine umfassende Geschichte der frühchristlichen Texte und ihrer Ausgaben unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Epheserbriefs. Der dritte Abschnitt widmet sich der Interpretation der Texte und Themen, die für das Verständnis des pseudo-paulinischen Briefes von einem jüngeren Schüler und Mitarbeiter Paulus von besonderer Bedeutung sind.

Nils Alstrup Dahl examines thoroughly the epistle to Ephesians. His main focus is not only on what the author of Ephesians says in his letter but what he does by saying it.

Über Autor(innen)

Fornberg, Tord
Born 1943; 1977 ThD; 1988 Habilitation, both at Uppsala University; taught at the same university until his retirement in 2008; presently teaching at the Newman Institute in Uppsala; member of the Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue of the Catholic Diocese of Stockholm.

Dahl, Nils A.
Born 1911; 1941 Dr. theol. at the University of Oslo; 1936 till the first half of World War II Lecturer at the University of Oslo; 1946-1965 Professor of New Testament at the University of Oslo; 1965-80 Buckingham Professor of New Testament at Yale University, New Haven, USA; since 1980 Professor emeritus.

Hellholm, David
Born 1941; 1980 Dr. theol.; 1982 Habilitation; 1979-83 assistant professor at the University of Linköping (Sweden); 1983-89 associate professor at the University of Bergen (Norway); 1990-2008 full professor of New Testament and its environment at the University of Oslo (Norway); since 2008 Emeritus.

Blomkvist, V.
Born 1967; Cand. philol. 1993.; 1998 Lecturer in Greek at the Faculty of Theology, the University of Oslo.