Todd Klutz

Artemis, Eve, and the Image of God

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Joseph Brennan’s excellent study demonstrates that previous scholarship on the marriage code in Ephesians has given far too little attention to the ways in which early audiences of that letter are likely to have been influenced by the contemporary cult of Artemis. Brennan constructs a culturally appropriate context for Ephesians that helps us to imagine how the letter’s images of marital union in Christ could have stood out as a highly attractive alternative to the prevailing alternatives in first-century CE Asia Minor.”