Minna Shkul examines how Ephesians engages in social
entrepreneurship (the deliberate shaping of emerging Christian
Identity through provision of ideological and social paradigms for
the fledgling Christian community). Shkul uses social
entrepreneurship as an umbrella for a variety of social processes
reflected in the text. This eclectic theoretical framework and
deutero-Pauline reading position has two key aims. The first is to
offer a theoretically informed social-scientific reading which
demonstrates the extensive socio-ideological shaping within the
text, and displays the writer's negotiation of different group
processes throughout the letter. The second is to examine emerging
Christian identity in the text, testing its ideological and social
contours and its reforms upon Jewish traditions. Crucially this is
done without the theological presupposition that something was
wrong with the Judaism practiced at the time, but rather by
focusing upon the divine 'legitimating' of the Christian group and
its culture. These readings of Ephesians examine how the writer
engages in a self-enhancing discourse that reinforces basic
components of communality. These include the construction of a
positive in-group identity and the provision of ideological and
social legitimating for the community. Shkul also discusses the
textual reflection of communal relations in other groups in
Greco-Roman antiquity. She examines how Christ-followers are
positioned in a Jewish symbolic universe, which is forced to make
room for Christ and his non-Israelite followers. Finally, she
explores the attitude toward non-Israelites within Ephesians, and
their need for re-socialization. Formerly the "Journal for the
Study of the New Testament Supplement", a book series that explores
the many aspects of New Testament study including historical
perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and
theological, cultural and contextual approaches. "The Early
Christianity in Context" series, a part of JSNTS, examines the
birth and development of early Christianity up to the end of the
third century CE. The series places Christianity in its social,
cultural, political and economic context. European Seminar on
Christian Origins and Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
Supplement are also part of JSNTS.
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