Who was ‘James’?

Essays on the Letter's Authorship and Provenance

Edited by Eve-Marie Becker Edited by Susanne Luther Edited by Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson

Extent: 446 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Language: English

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(July 2022)

ISBN: 9783161612374

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This volume takes up the current debate on the literary profile and the author of the Letter of James. The essays present new insights into James’ literary concept and authorial profile and situate the Letter of James within the context of an emerging Christ-believing literary culture.

This volume takes up the current scholarly debate on the literary profile and the author of the Letter of James. The approach reaches beyond the conventional historical quest for James’ epistolary authorship and intellectual provenance by combining observations about the explicit, the implicit, the historical, and the literary author with studies on style, rhetoric, literary criticism, genre criticism and literary history, religious profiles, literary patterns of authorship, and communicative structures. The essays of this volume present new insights into James’ literary concept and multifaceted authorial profile based on the latest research in ancient (epistolary) author-literature, provide new methodological perspectives on early Christian epistolary authorship, and situate the Letter of James within the context of an emerging Christ-believing literary culture.

Eve-Marie Becker/Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson/Susanne Luther: Who was "James"? Profiling the Epistolary Author and His Provenience. Introduction to the Volume - Alicia J. Batten: James the Dramatist - Thomas Johann Bauer: Der Jakobusbrief und das Bild des Jakobus im Kontext antiker und frühchristlicher Epistolographie - Eve-Marie Becker: Σοφία ἄνωθεν versus ἄνω κλῆσις? Jas 3:15, 17 and Phil 3:14 in Comparison - Eve-Marie Becker: Wer ist "Jakobus“? Ein typologischer Blick im Rahmen der frühchristlichen Briefkultur - Clarissa Breu: Prosopopöie im Jakobusbrief aus dekonstruktiver Perspektive - Niclas Förster: "Elia war ein Mensch uns gleichartig" (Jak 5,17): Jakobus, Elia und das Gebet des Gerechten in der Perspektive des Jakobusbriefs - Christine Ganslmayer: Der Autor des Jakobusbriefs aus linguistischer Perspektive - George Hinge: The Hexameter in James 1:17: Metrical Forms in Graeco-Roman Prose Literature Between Emulation and Quotation - Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson: The Letter of James as Ethopoeia - John S. Kloppenborg: The Author of James and His Lexical Profile - Susanne Luther: Profiling the Author of the Letter of James: Dealing with Traditions in the Light of Epistolary Authorship Conceptions - Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr: Wer war 'Jakobus' in den Augen seiner Leser? Zu meinem Ansatz der Kommentierung des Jakobusbriefs im EKK - Lorenzo Scornaienchi: Polemik im Jakobusbrief und deren Bedeutung für die Konfiguration des Autors - Nicolas Wiater: Being 'James': Pseudepigraphy and Narrative Identity - Oda Wischmeyer: Who was 'James'? Der Herrenbruder, "ein Namenloser aus den Vielen“, ein "role model" oder ein frühchristlicher Lehrer mit Namen Iakōbos ? Die Neukommentierung des Jakobusbriefes für Meyers Kritisch-Exegetischen Kommentar - Oda Wischmeyer: Sciptural Classicism? The Letter of James as an Early Christian Literary Document.

Edited by Eve-Marie Becker
Edited by Susanne Luther
Edited by Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson

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