Assertion: epistle | /r/HasProperty | addressed to jew
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text: The most natural understanding of “the twelve tribes in the Dispersion” (1:1) would be that the epistle is addressed to Jews scattered throughout the Roman empire.
text: The most natural understanding of “the twelve tribes in the Dispersion” ( 1:1 ) would be that the epistle is addressed to Jews scattered throughout the Roman empire.
text: The reasons assigned for this conclusion are: (1) the general Judaic tone of the ep., which seems to antedate admission of the Gentiles in any alarming numbers into the church; but since the epistle is addressed only to Jews, why should the Gentiles be mentioned in it, whatever its date? and (2) the fact that Paul and Peter are supposed to have quoted from James in their writing; but this matter of quotation is always an uncertain one, and it has been ably argued that the quotation has been the other way about.