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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 June 2011
Most early Christians perceived the world in which they lived as a world of Jews and Gentiles. Ephesians speaks most impressively about the unity of the two parts in the church, which is the body of Christ. Studies of Ephesians have very often concentrated on the idea of the church and the relationship between ecclesiology, christology, and soteriology. Some scholars have paid special attention to the relationship between the church and Israel, Christians and Jews. Statements about the Gentiles have received much less attention, but for reasons which will become apparent in the course of this article, I prefer to begin with them*.
* Lack of time and space has made it impossible for me to supply this article with notes. Much of what should have been in the notes can be found in earlier articles of mine: “Der Epheserbrief und der verlorene, erste Brief des Paulus an die Korinther,” in Betz, Otto, Hengel, Martin, and Schmidt, Peter, eds., Abraham unser Vater: Juden und Christen im Gespräch über die Bibel (AGJU 5; Leiden: Brill, 1963) 65–67Google Scholar; “Das Geheimnis der Kirche nach Eph. 3,8–10,” in Schlink, Edmund and Peters, Albrecht, eds., Zur Auferbauung des Leibes Christi (Kassel: Stauda-Verlag, 1965) 63–75Google Scholar; “Cosmic Dimensions and Religious Knowledge (Eph 3:18),” in Ellis, E. Earle and Grässer, Erich, eds., Jesus und Paulus (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975) 57–75Google Scholar; “Ephesians, Letter to the,” IDBSup, 268–69; “Interpreting Ephesians: Then and Now,” TD 25 (1977) 305–15Google Scholar; “Dåpsforståelsen i Efeserbrevet,” in Pedersen, Siegfried, ed., Dåben i Ny Testamente (Aarhus: Aros, 1982) 141–60.Google Scholar
