Put on the Armour of God: The Divine Warrior from Isaiah to Ephesians

by Thomas Yoder Neufeld, Chris Keith (Editor)

Overview

Isaiah 59 portrays a deity in armour warring against rebellious human foes. In this historical investigation, Yoder Neufeld maps the transformation of an ancient tradition into a creative new reading in which God's people put on God's armour and go to battle against God's heavenly foes, as in Ephesians 6. The Pauline recasting of the Isaianic motif, argues the author, is a bracing one.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850756552
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/01/1997
Series:	The Library of New Testament Studies , #140
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo, Ontario.

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.