Book Written: 61A.D. to 63 A.D. according to Baker, but anywhere from 60s A.D. to 95 A.D. according to HC
Time Period/Setting: Baker says Paul wrote this letter from a Roman prison, but HC says place of authorship is unknown. Paul is writing to Gentile Christians.
Title: Paul is not necessarily the author. According to HC, the author is more likely a student of Paul's who wrote after Paul's death.
This letter may not necessarily have been written to the church in Ephesus, but was rather a more general letter to all churches. Baker says Paul wrote to combat a "challenge to the primacy of Christ in all creation." HC talks about Paul's audience as "experiencing a radical transformation of their personal and social identity."
Chapter 5 contains the familiar verses about the relation of husbands to wives being that of Christ to the Church. Chapter 6 speaks of the relation of children to parents and slaves to masters along with the verses about putting on "the whole armor of God" in order to withstand evil.
