Open AccessThe strophic structure of the eulogy of Ephesians 1:3-14
Author(s) -
J.H. Barkhuizen
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
hts teologiese studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2072-8050
pISSN - 0259-9422
DOI - 10.4102/hts.v46i3.2328
Subject(s) - eulogy , sentence , statement (logic) , computer science , linguistics , literature , philosophy , art , natural language processing
Since Eduard Norden’s (1913) statement concerning the awkward length and construction of Ephesians 1:3-14, a flood of studies have been devoted to the analysis of this Greek sentence. In this paper I have firstly given an overview of those studies representative of the structure of the eulogy of Ephesians 1:3-14, and secondly presented a new reconstruction of this passage based on principles of form and content