James the Just and Christian Origins

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-11550-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 98, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Reihe: Novum Testamentum, Supplements

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? Contributors from several countries are currently engaged in collaborative study in James and early Jewish Christianity. James the Just and Christian Origins is the first of several planned volumes to be published.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chilton, Bruce D

Evans, Craig A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Historisch-Kritische Jesusforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Bruce Chilton: Introduction
Philip Davies: James in the Qumran scrolls
Peter H. Davids: Palestine traditions in the Epistle of James
Jacob Neusner: Vow-taking, the Nazirites, and the Law: Does James’ advice to Paul accord with Halakah?
Scot McKnight: A parting within the Way: Jesus and James on Israel and purity
William R. Farmer: James the Lord’s brother, according to Paul
Marcus Bockmuehl: Antioch and James the Just
Richard J. Bauckham: For what offence was James put to death?
Craig A. Evans: Jesus and James: Martyrs of the Temple
Bruce Chilton: Conclusions and questions

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Bard College, and the author of A Feast of Meanings: Eucharistic Theologies from Jesus through Johannine Circles (Brill, 1994).
Craig Evans is Professor of New Testament at Trinity Western University and Senior Research Fellow at Roehampton Institute London, and author of Jesus and His Contemporaries: Comparative Studies (Brill, 1995).