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The Epistle of James[ a ] is a general epistle and one of the 21 epistles (didactic letters) in the New Testament. It was written originally in Koine Greek. [ 4 ] James 1:1 identifies the author as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ" who is writing to "the twelve tribes scattered abroad".
The Gospel of James (or the Protoevangelium of James) [Note 1] is a second-century infancy gospel telling of the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary, her upbringing and marriage to Joseph, the journey of the couple to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and events immediately following. [2][3] It is the earliest surviving assertion of the ...
James the Just, or a variation of James, brother of the Lord (Latin: Iacobus from Hebrew: יעקב, Ya'aqov and Greek: Ἰάκωβος, Iákōbos, can also be Anglicized as "Jacob"), was a brother of Jesus, according to the New Testament. He was the first leader of the Jerusalem Church of the Apostolic Age. Traditionally, it is believed he was ...
The Apocryphon of James, [1] also called the Secret Book of James[2][3] or the Apocryphal Epistle of James, [4][5] is a Gnostic epistle. [1][4] It is the second tractate in Codex I of the Nag Hammadi library. [4][5] The tractate is a Coptic translation of a Greek original, [4] probably written in Egypt, [1][4] with estimates of the date ranging ...
Addressee (s) according to the text (NRSV) Epistle of James. "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ". James, brother of Jesus. An unknown James. "To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion " [2] First Epistle of Peter. "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ". Simon Peter.
The New International Commentary on the New Testament (or NICNT) is a series of commentaries in English on the text of the New Testament in Greek. It is published by the William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. The current series editor is Joel B. Green. The NICNT covers all 27 books of the New Testament with the exceptions of 2 Peter and Jude.
James the Great[a] (Koinē Greek: Ἰάκωβος, romanized: Iákōbos; Aramaic: ܝܥܩܘܒ, romanized: Yaʿqōḇ; died AD 44) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was the second of the apostles to die (after Judas Iscariot), and the first to be martyred. [1] Saint James is the patron saint of Spain and ...
The antilegomena were widely read in the Early Church and included the Epistle of James, the Epistle of Jude, 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, the Book of Revelation, the Gospel of the Hebrews, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Apocalypse of Peter, the Acts of Paul, the Shepherd of Hermas, the Epistle of Barnabas and the Didache.