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Ephesians 2 as a Narrative of Divine Warfare

University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland KY16 9JU, timgombis{at}yahoo.com

The current consensus in Ephesians scholarship regards the letter’s second chapter as an expansion or continuation of the blessing and thanksgiving section from ch. 1, maintaining that it does not contain any cogent theological argument or even a clear and consistent line of thought. This article challenges the consensus by reading the chapter through the lens of the ideology of divine warfare, which is found in texts throughout the ANE and utilized in both the Old Testament and New Testament. It is argued that reading the text through this paradigm brings to light the contours of the author’s argument, which is a listing of the triumphs of God in Christ that vindicate the claim that Christ has been exalted as Lord over all things (Eph. 1.20-23).

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