Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament
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In this fresh commentary, the fourth of eighteen volumes in the Paideia series, a leading New Testament scholar examines cultural context and theological meaning in Matthew. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by
* Attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs
* Showing how the text shapes theological convictions and moral habits
* Commenting on the final, canonical form of each New Testament book
* Focusing on the cultural, literary, and theological settings of the text
* Making judicious use of maps, photos, and sidebars in a reader-friendly format
* Attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs
* Showing how the text shapes theological convictions and moral habits
* Commenting on the final, canonical form of each New Testament book
* Focusing on the cultural, literary, and theological settings of the text
* Making judicious use of maps, photos, and sidebars in a reader-friendly format
Ephesians and Colossians is the first of eighteen volumes in the new Paideia commentary series. This series approaches each text in its final, canonical form, proceeding by sense units rather than word-by-word or verse-by-verse. Each sense unit is explored in three sections: (1) introductory matters, (2) tracing the train of thought, (3) key hermeneutical and theological questions. The commentaries shed fresh light on the text while avoiding idiosyncratic readings, attend to theological meaning without presuming a specific theological stance in the reader, and show how the text uses narrative and rhetorical strategies from the ancient educational context to form and shape the reader. Professors, graduate and seminary students, and pastors will benefit from this readable commentary, as will theological libraries.