This book analyzes Paul's Letter to the Ephesians and demonstrates that the Letter's implied audience heard its individual units as a rich and complex pattern of chiastic structures. It shows that, not only is the entire Letter arranged in fifteen units that function as a comprehensive chiastic structure, but that each of these fifteen units in turn exhibits its own chiastic structure. By attending carefully to the structure and rhetoric of Ephesians, this work demonstrates how the implied audience is persuaded and empowered by the progression of the Letter to "walk in love" and so effect the cosmic unity of all things in Christ.
Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
- ISBN10 9004151257
- ISBN13 9789004151253
- Publish Date 13 August 2007 (first published 15 June 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 May 2014
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Brill
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English
- URL http://brill.com/product_id25814