SMITH,J., Christ the Ideal King. Tübingen 2011.
Christ the Ideal King. Cultural Context, Rhetorical Strategy, and the Power of Divine Monarchy in Ephesians. 1. Aufl. Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2011.
23 x 16 cm. X, 316 S. Fadenbindung. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe, 313). ISBN 9783161509742.
A central rhetorical strategy of Ephesians involves the portrayal of Christ as an ideal king who reunites a fractured cosmos and humanity through his reign. In this comprehensive study, Julien Smith shows how this literary characterization unifies the letter’s major themes: reconciling humanity with God, uniting Jew and gentile, establishing ecclesiastical harmony, and defeating hostile powers arrayed against the church. The author grounds his analysis in a thorough account of the kingly ideal’s powerful contemporary cultural resonance, which was rooted in the widespread yearning within both Greco-Roman and Jewish thought for a golden age inaugurated by a divinely ordained monarch. For Ephesians’ author and audience, only Christ the ideal king has power to form identity and transform behavior.
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