This text is part of The Computer-Generated Bible, a series of open-ended computer-generated critical concordance of biblical and related material in the original languages.

This volume contains fifty-two essays composed in honor of David Noel Freedman and organized around the topics: Hebrew Poetry and Prophecy, The Prose of the Hebrew Bible, History and Institutions of Israel, Northwest Semitic Epigraphy, and Other Perspectives. A bibliography of the honoree is included.

In this new commentary Muddiman questions the assumption that if Ephesians is not by Paul it must be wholly accounted for as an example of post-Pauline pseudepigraphy. He explores an alternative: that it is an authentic letter subsequently edited and expanded with the aim of adjusting the Pauline tradition to meet a new situation. All the perspectives of major modern scholars are discussed and assessed particularly on the question of Ephesians' relationship to Colossians. The implications for the question of the authorship on Paul's theology are extensively explored.

These volumes are part of a series of bibliographies on the books of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles as well as the deutero-canonicals. Each compiler is working within the general framework that citations are to works publishing within the twentieth century that make important contributions to the understanding of the text and backgrounds of the various books. The arrangement for the entries, in most volumes, consists of three divisions: scriptural citations; subject citations; commentaries. Multiple citations by scriptural citation are included where relevant.

The Epistle to Ephesians contains powerful statements of Pauline doctrine, but many questions can be raised about its authorship and intended readership. John Muddiman's exposition of this text explores these issues and their theological implications, deploying the latest scholarship to provide a thorough and illuminating commentary on this epistle.