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Metaphors in the Narrative of Ephesians 2:11–22

In Brill, Ephesians, Ephesus, Kai Akagi, Metaphor, Narratology, Oscar E. Jiménez on November 30, 2023 at 2:27 pm
Cover of book: White background with three circles containing manuscript fragments

2023.11.08 | Oscar E. Jiménez. Metaphors in the Narrative of Ephesians 2:11–22: Motion towards Maximal Proximity and Higher Status. Linguistic Biblical Studies 20. Leiden: Brill, 2022. pp. xiii + 221.

Review by Kai Akagi, Rikkyo University.

Oscar E. Jiménez’s Metaphors in the Narrative of Ephesians 2:11–22: Motion towards Maximal Proximity and Higher Status is the published version of Jiménez’s PhD thesis completed at London School of Theology. The volume provides a reading of Ephesians 2:11–22, approaching this text from the two perspectives included in the volume’s title: metaphors and narrative. Specifically, Jiménez employs conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) to analyze and articulate the significance and function of metaphors in the text. At the same time, he approaches the text as a “narrative” consisting of a “drama” in three acts such that each part of Ephesians 2:11–22 may be considered as part of a progression integrally related to the other parts of the text.

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Mark W. Elliott, “The promise and threat of Reception, with reference to patristic interpretation of texts in Hebrews and Ephesians”

In Ephesians, Hebrews, Justin A. Mihoc, Mark W. ELLIOTT, New Testament, Patristics, Reception history, St Andrews Graduate Conference for Biblical and Early Christian Studies on January 22, 2012 at 5:28 pm

This is a report on a paper presented by Dr Mark Elliott as a keynote address at the 1st St Andrews Graduate Conference for Biblical and Early Christian Studies, 16th June 2011. The conference theme was “Authoritative Texts and Reception History”. The programme of the conference is available here. The conference facebook page can be found here.

Dr Elliott’s engaging paper offered a fresh and clear account of patristic reception analysis, by looking at two key New Testament texts and their interpretation over the first Christian centuries. In his view, the empirical application, rather than a purely linguistic-critical interpretation, does justice to the initial intention of the biblical authors.

He began by assessing the importance of the historical-critical studies of the Bible, as they can provide a fresh interpretation. Read the rest of this entry »