Courtroom Theatrics in the Letter of James.
Since the eighteenth century, interpreters of the Letter of James have pointed to a judicial assembly as the envisaged background for Jas 2:1-7. In particular, commentators have identified rabbinic examples as parallels for the type of setting that the letter describes. However, one can also conside...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 143; no. 4; pp. 697 - 716 |
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