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The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters is a one-of-a-kind reference work. Following the format of its highly successful companion volume, the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, this Dictionary is designed to bring students, teachers, ministers and laypeople abreast of the established conclusions and significant recent developments in Pauline scholarship. No other single reference works...

Ephesians from this perspective. A noteworthy beginning is A. T. Lincoln’s commentary on Ephesians, which attempts to observe the rhetorical purpose of the flow of thought throughout the letter. He concludes that the writer combines the epideictic and the deliberative rhetorical genres (Lincoln, xli-xlii). With its variety of literary forms, traditions and sources, Ephesians is far from the straightforward prose of a typical letter of antiquity (see Letters). What, then, is the best way to describe
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