Table Of ContentJOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
SUPPLEMENT SERIES
140
Executive Editor
Stanley E. Porter
Editorial Board
David Catchpole, R. Alan Culpepper, Margaret Davies, James D.G. Dunn,
Craig A. Evans, Stephen Fowl, Robert Fowler, Robert Jewett,
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, Robert W. Wall
Sheffield Academic Press
Tut on the Armour of God'
The Divine Warrior from Isaiah to Ephesians
Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld
Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Supplement Series 140
Copyright © 1997 Sheffield Academic Press
Published by Sheffield Academic Press Ltd
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 7
Abbreviations 8
Introduction 11
Chapter 1
THE DIVINE WARRIOR IN ISAIAH 59 15
1. The Context of Isaiah 59 15
2. An Analysis of Isaiah 59 17
3. The Divine Warrior 23
4. The Armour 28
5. Observations 36
6. The Septuagint Translation of Isaiah 59 42
Chapter 2
THE DIVINE WARRIOR IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 5 48
1. The Context of the Theophany of the Divine Warrior 50
2. The Divine Warrior 58
3. Eschatology 66
4. Observations 68
Chapter 3
THE DIVINE WARRIOR IN 1 THESSALONIANS 5 73
1. The Context of the Motif of the Divine Warrior's Armour 74
2. The Appropriation of the Tradition 76
3. The Transformation of the Divine Warrior 84
4. Observations 91
Chapter 4
THE DIVINE WARRIOR IN EPHESIANS 6 94
1. The Context of the Divine Warrior in Ephesians 97
2. The Call to Divine Warfare 109
6 'Put on the Armour of God'
3. The Armour of God 131
4. Paul's Relationship to the Saints as Divine Warrior 145
5. Observations 150
Conclusion 154
Bibliography 157
Index of References 169
Index of Authors 180
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I take pleasure in acknowledging my debt to the many teachers, students
and colleagues who have accompanied me in this endeavour: Professors
George McRae, SJ, and Helmut Koester, advisors of my doctoral thesis
at the Harvard University Divinity School, the earlier version of this
present work; Professors John Strugnell and Theodore Hiebert, readers
of that first version; Professor Dieter Georgi, whose influence on my
thinking reaches back to my MDiv studies at Harvard Divinity School
in the early 1970s; fellow students, companions, and friends Barbara
Bowe and Sze-Kar Wan, whose friendship will last a lifetime; and my
colleagues and friends at Conrad Grebel College and the University of
Waterloo. All scholarship is by its very nature collaborative. I give
thanks for this collaborative community.
I owe an even greater debt of gratitude to my immediate and extend-
ed family for their prayerful and constant support, most especially to my
almost always patient children David and Miriam and always encour-
aging spouse Rebecca, to whom this book is dedicated with much love.
My deepest gratitude belongs to God, whose sustaining and prodding
presence has accompanied me throughout this process, and who has
seen to it that the toil of scholarship has more often than not brought the
pleasure of encounter with divine Wisdom.
Lastly, I gratefully acknowledge the support of the University of
Waterloo/Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in providing
me with a grant for computer equipment and software that enabled me
to prepare this manuscript for publication, and to my academic home,
Conrad Grebel College, which aided generously in the costs of publi-
cation.
ABBREVIATIONS
AB Anchor Bible
AGJU Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des
Urchristentums
AnBib Analecta Biblica
ANET J.B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts
BAGD W. Bauer, W.F. Arndt, F.W. Gingrich and F.W. Danker,
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament
BBB Bonner biblische Beitrage
BDB F. Brown, S.R. Driver and CA. Briggs, Hebrew and English
Lexicon of the Old Testament
BDF F. Blass, A. Debrunner and R.W. Funk, A Greek Grammar of
the New Testament
BHT Beitrage zur historischen Theologie
Bib Biblica
BNTC Black's New Testament Commentaries
BWANT Beitrage zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CBQMS Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Monograph Series
EBib Etudes bibliques
EKKNT Evangelisch-Katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament
FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen
Testaments
HAT Handbuch zum Alten Testament
HNT Handbuch zum Neuen Testament
HR History of Religions
HSM Harvard Semitic Monographs
HTR Harvard Theological Review
ICC International Critical Commentary
IDB GA. Buttrick (ed.), Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible
IDBSup IDB, Supplementary Volume
Int Interpretation
IRT Issues in Religion and Theology
ITC International Theological Commentary
JAAR Journal of the American Academy of Religion
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JETS Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies
JSJ Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic
and Roman Period
Abbreviations
JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament
JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series
LBS Library of Biblical Studies
LCL Loeb Classical Library
NCBC New Century Bible Commentary
NHC Nag Hammadi Codices
NovT Novum Testamentum
NovTSup Novum Testamentum Supplements
NTD Das Neue Testament Deutsch
NTS New Testament Studies
OTL Old Testament Library
OTM Old Testament Message
RB Revue biblique
RevExp Review and Expositor
SBLMS SBL Monograph Series
SBS Stuttgarter Bibelstudien
SBT Studies in Biblical Theology
SHCT Studies in the History of Christian Thought
SNTSMS Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
SOTSMS Society for Old Testament Study Monograph Series
ST Studia Theologica
TBT The Bible Today
TDNT G. Kittel and G. Friedrich (eds.), Theological Dictionary of the
New Testament
THKNT Theologischer Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament
TLZ Theologische Literaturzeitung
VC Vigiliae christianae
VT Vetus Testamentum
VTSup Vetus Testamentum, Supplements
WUNT Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
ZAW Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschafi
ZWT Zeitschriftfur wissenschaftliche Theologie
