The Moral World Of James (studies In Biblical Literature)
by James Riley Strange /
2010 / English / PDF
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InThe Moral World of James
The Moral World of James, James Riley Strange compares
the moral system in the Epistle of James with other Greco-Roman and
Judaic texts. The author of the epistle prescribed moral practices
in a world in which other people, both pagan and Jewish, had long
been expressing similar concerns, and more would continue to take
up the task centuries after Christianity was well established in
the Roman Empire. In this fresh and thick analysis, Stranges
systemic comparison of texts (among them works of Plato, Plutarch,
Epictetus, and Aelius Aristides, as well as Greek Magical Papyri,
tractates of the Mishnah, and the Community Rule of the Dead Sea
Scrolls) reveals how James's vision of a distinctive way of
community life was both part of and distinct from the moral and
religious systems among which it emerged.
, James Riley Strange compares
the moral system in the Epistle of James with other Greco-Roman and
Judaic texts. The author of the epistle prescribed moral practices
in a world in which other people, both pagan and Jewish, had long
been expressing similar concerns, and more would continue to take
up the task centuries after Christianity was well established in
the Roman Empire. In this fresh and thick analysis, Stranges
systemic comparison of texts (among them works of Plato, Plutarch,
Epictetus, and Aelius Aristides, as well as Greek Magical Papyri,
tractates of the Mishnah, and the Community Rule of the Dead Sea
Scrolls) reveals how James's vision of a distinctive way of
community life was both part of and distinct from the moral and
religious systems among which it emerged.