Jews, Gentiles and Ethnic Reconciliation: Paul's Jewish identity and Ephesians

by Tet-Lim N. Yee

Exhaustive recent scholarship has focused on Paul's insistence that Gentiles be granted equal status with the Jews as members of the people of God. Tet-Lim Yee's study of Ephesians 2 reveals how the distinctively Jewish world view underlies this key text and he highlight's the reconciling work of Christ for both Jew and Gentile. His study represents an important contribution to the continuing reassessment of Christian and Jewish interaction during the critical period of the latter decades of the first century CE.

326 pages, Hardcover

First published March 31, 2005

Reviews

[Zac McNeal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly, more like 3.5 stars. I am interacting with this book in my doctoral thesis, so hopefully you'll see my critique published in it some day. Love that Yee gave ample attention to the Jewish "backcloth" (as he likes to call it) of Ephesians, but completely disagree with the "Jewish ethnocentrism" thesis of the New Perspective.