Christ the Ideal King: Cultural Context, Rhetorical Strategy, and the Power of Divine Monarchy in Ephesians. By Julien Smith
In this revised doctoral dissertation from Baylor University (supervised by Charles Talbert), Julien Smith investigates to what extent the motif of the ideal king in Greco-Roman and Jewish literature is detectable in the presentation of Christ in Ephesians. To be sure, Smith is not interested in the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 705-707 |
| Review of: | Christ the ideal king (Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2011) (Hardin, Justin K.)
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| Summary: | In this revised doctoral dissertation from Baylor University (supervised by Charles Talbert), Julien Smith investigates to what extent the motif of the ideal king in Greco-Roman and Jewish literature is detectable in the presentation of Christ in Ephesians. To be sure, Smith is not interested in the question of origins or pre-existent sources; rather, his aim is to explore both how the original audience may have heard the author's claims about Christ's victorious rule and what these claims were meant to achieve in the literary strategy of this letter. Smith concludes that Christ is indeed portrayed in Ephesians as an ideal king, which both highlights the primary theme of Ephesians (according to Smith, ‘the reunification of the “fractured cosmos” ’ [p. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flu072 |