James the Just and Christian origins
By: edited by Bruce Chilton and Craig A. Evans.
Contributors: Chilton, Bruce.; Evans, Craig A.
Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum,; v. 98
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: James, Brother of the Lord, Saint.; Christianity -- Origin.; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Description: "The lack of serious and sustained investigation of the historical figure of James 'the Just,' brother of Jesus, is one of the curious oversights in modern critical study of Christian origins. James the Just and Christian Origins addresses this problem. The questions that surround this exceedingly important, yet largely ignored figure are several and complicated. Was he really the brother of Jesus? How influential was he in the early church? What was the nature of his relationship to the other apostles, especially to Paul? How did James understand Christianity's relationship to Judaism and to the people of Israel? Out of this grows a very important question: In its generative moment, was Christianity in fact as well as in its self-awareness, a species of Judaism?"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Bruce Chilton; title: James in the Qumran scrolls / Philip Davies; title: Palestinian traditions in the Epistle of James / Peter H. Davids; title: Vow-taking, the Nazirites, and the Law : does James' advice to Paul accord with halakhah? / Jacob Neusner; title: A parting within the Way : Jesus and James on Israel and purity / Scot McKnight; title: James the Lord's brother, according to Paul / William R. Farmer; title: Antioch and James the Just / Markus Bockmuehl; title: For what offence was James put to death? / Richard J. Bauckham; title: Jesus and James : martyrs of the Temple / Craig A. Evans; title: Conclusions and questions / Bruce Chilton.