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Bibliography: Ephesians

Overview

Heil, John Paul. Ephesians: Empowerment to Walk in Love for the Unity of All in Christ. SBL 13. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Kitchen, Martin. Ephesians. NTR. London: Routledge, 1994.

Lincoln, Andrew, and A. J. Wedderburn. The Theology of the Later Pauline Letters. NTT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Perkins, Pheme. Ephesians. ANTC. Nashville: Abingdon, 1997.

Talbert, Charles H. Ephesians and Colossians. Paideia. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007.

Taylor, Walter F., Jr., and John Reumann. Ephesians, Colossians. ACNT. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1985.

Thurston, Bonnie. Reading Colossians, Ephesians, and 2 Thessalonians: A Literary and Theological Commentary. RNTS. New York: Crossroad, 1995.

Wright, Tom. Paul for Everyone: The Prison Letters. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002.

Critical Commentaries

Barth, Markus. Ephesians. 2 vols. AB 34, 34A. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.

Best, Ernest. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians. ICC. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998.

Bruce, F. F. Colossians, Philemon, Ephesians. NICNT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984.

Hoehner, Harold W. Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002.

Lincoln, Andrew T. Ephesians. WBC 42. Dallas: Word, 1990.

MacDonald, Margaret Y. Colossians and Ephesians. SP. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2000.

Martin, Ralph P. Ephesians, Colossians, and Philemon. Interpretation. Louisville: John Knox, 1992.

Muddiman, John. The Epistle to the Ephesians. BNTC. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004.

O’Brien, Peter T. Ephesians. PNTC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Schnackenburg, Rudolf. The Epistle to the Ephesians. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1991.

Witherington, Ben, III. The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Captivity Epistles. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

The City of Ephesus

Koester, Helmut, ed. Ephesos—Metropolis of Asia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Its Archaeology, Religion, and Culture. HTS 41. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1995.

Trebilco, Paul R. The Early Christians in Ephesus from Paul to Ignatius. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

Yamauchi, Edwin M. “Ephesus.” In New Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor, 79–114. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1980.

The Mystery of God’s Plan

Bockmuehl, Markus N. A. Revelation and Mystery in Ancient Judaism and Pauline Christianity. WUNT 36. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1990.

Caragounis, Chrys C. The Ephesian Mystērion: Meaning and Context. ConBNT 8. Lund: Gleerup, 1977.

Hanson, Stig. The Unity of the Church in the New Testament: Colossians and Ephesians. ASNU 14. Uppsala: Almquist & Wiksell, 1946.

Moritz, Thomas. A Profound Mystery: The Use of the Old Testament in Ephesians. NovTSup 85. Leiden: Brill, 1996.

Church as the Body of Christ

Best, Ernest. One Body in Christ: A Study in the Relationship of the Church to Christ in the Epistles of the Apostle Paul. London: SPCK, 1955.

Dawes, Gregory W. The Body in Question: Metaphor and Meaning in the Interpretation of Ephesians 5:21–33. BIS 30. Leiden: Brill, 1998.

Gundry, Robert H. Sōma in Biblical Theology. SNTSMS 29. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Minear, Paul S. Images of the Church in the New Testament. NTL. 1960. Reprint, Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004.

Robinson, J. A. T. The Body: A Study in Pauline Theology. SBT 5. London: SCM, 1952.

Yorke, Gosnell L. O. R. The Church as One Body in Christ in the Pauline Corpus. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991.

The Dividing Wall

Barth, Markus. The Broken Wall: A Study of the Epistle to the Ephesians. Chicago: Judson, 1959.

The Current Exalted Status of Believers

Lincoln, Andrew. “Ephesians and Heavenly Life in the Church at Worship.” In Paradise Now and Not Yet: Studies in the Role of the Heavenly Dimension in Paul’s Thought, with Special Reference to His Eschatology, 135–68. SNTSMS 43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Spiritual Powers and Principalities

Arnold, Clinton E. Ephesians: Power and Magic; The Concept of Power in Ephesians in Light of Its Historical Setting. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1992.

Caird, G. B. Principalities and Powers: A Study in Pauline Theology. Oxford: Clarendon, 1956.

Carr, Wesley. Angels and Principalities: The Background, Meaning, and Development of the Pauline Phrase hai archai kai hai exousiai. SNTSMS 42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Schlier, Heinrich. Principalities and Powers in the New Testament. New York: Herder & Herder, 1961.

Wink, Walter. Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.

The Ephesian Household Code

Best, Ernest. “The Haustafel in Ephesians (Eph. 5.22–6.29).” In Essays on Ephesians, 189–204. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1997.

Bilezikian, Gilbert. Beyond Sex Roles: What the Bible Says about a Woman’s Place in Church and Family. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007.

Blankenhorn, David, Don Browning, and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, eds. Does Christianity Teach Male Headship? The Equal-Regard Marriage and Its Critics. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

Hering, James P. The Colossian and Ephesian Haustafeln in Theological Context: An Analysis of Their Origins, Relationship, and Message. New York: Lang, 2007.

Keener, Craig. “Part 2: Women’s Roles in the Family.” In Paul, Women and Wives: Marriage and Women’s Ministry in the Letters of Paul, 113–224. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1992.

Marriage

Beattie, Gillian. “Marriage in the Deutero-Pauline Literature: Colossians and Ephesians.” In Women and Marriage in Paul and His Early Interpreters, 65–82. JSNTSup 296. London: T&T Clark, 2005.

Miletic, Stephen Francis. “One Flesh”—Eph. 5.22–24, 5.31: Marriage and the New Creation. AnBib 115. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1988.

Sampley, J. Paul. “And the Two Shall Become One Flesh”: A Study of Traditions in Ephesians 5:21–33. SNTSMS 16. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.

The Liturgical Tone of Ephesians

Best, Ernest. “The Use of Credal and Liturgical Material in Ephesians.” In Essays on Ephesians, 51–68. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1997.

Harris, W. H., III. The Descent of Christ: Ephesians 4:7–11 and Traditional Hebrew Imagery. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1998.

Kirby, J. C. Ephesians, Baptism, and Pentecost: An Inquiry into the Structure and Purpose of the Epistle to the Ephesians. London: SPCK, 1968.

Other Academic Studies

Dahl, Nils A. Studies in Ephesians: Introductory Questions, Text- and Edition-Critical Issues, Interpretation of Texts and Themes. Edited by D. Hellholm, V. Blomkvist, and T. Fornberg. WUNT 131. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000.

Kreitzer, L. J. Hieropolis in the Heavens: Studies in the Letter to the Ephesians. LNTS 368. New York: T&T Clark, 2007.

Rosner, Brian S. Greed as Idolatry: The Origin and Meaning of a Pauline Metaphor. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

Thurston, Bonnie. Spiritual Life in the Early Church: The Witness of Acts and Ephesians. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

Trebilco, Paul. The Early Christians in Ephesus from Paul to Ignatius. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.