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Why James Did Not Write James

Here I conclude my string of posts dealing with whether James the brother of Jesus wrote the book of James as the book itself implicitly claims.  Again this is taken from my more academic study Forgery and Counterforgery, but I've edited it a bit for an audience of regular folk instead of irregular scholars. In my [...]

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Could James, the Brother of Jesus, Even Write?

In my previous post I tried to show what the author of James is almost certainly claiming to be “that” James, the actual brother of Jesus.  In this post and the next will be explaining why it probably (well, almost certainly was not, in my view) written by him. I’ve decided, as is my occasional [...]

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James: Who, When, and Why? Does It Claim to be by THAT James (the brother of Jesus)?

In my previous post I summarized the major themes and emphases of the five-chapter letter of James, one of the Catholic Epistles.  I now want to get into the questions of Who Wrote It, When, and Why.  This will take a couple of posts, and I've decided to give a fuller scoop in this case [...]

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James: Who, When, and Why? Does It Claim to Be by THAT James (the brother of Jesus)?

In my previous post I summarized the major themes and emphases of the five-chapter letter of James, one of the Catholic Epistles.  I now want to get into the questions of Who Wrote It, When, and Why.  This will take a couple of posts, and I've decided to give a fuller scoop in this case [...]

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The Book of James in a Nutshell

In this “New Testament in a Nutshell” thread I come now to the intriguing book of James, long one of my favorites among the Catholic epistles.  At one point in my earlier existence, I liked the book so well that I memorized it.  Don’t ask me to recite it now; that was 50 years ago. [...]

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1 and 2 Corinthians “At a Glance,” and Questions for Reflection

In earlier posts I provided discussions of both 1 and 2 Corinthians: their major emphases and themes, what we know about their context, when they were written, and why.   Check them out here: 1 Corinthians in a Nutshell 1 Corinthians: Who, When, and Why? 2 Corinthians in a Nutshell 2 Corinthians: Who Wrote It, When, [...]

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Some Readers’ Questions and Some Responses

I continue to get excellent questions from readers of the blog.  I can't devote a post to all of them (I do answer all the ones I get in the comments section), but I do like to address a few of them publicly for everyone to see, every week or so.  Here's a current outstanding [...]

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Will Everyone be Saved? (Everyone??)

There has been an extraordinary range of views in Christianity about who will be “saved,” whether people have any say in the matter, what it requires, whether salvation can be lost, and … most everything else connected with this central teaching of the religion.  It may seem odd that disagreements among Christian thinkers would involve [...]

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Will Everyone be Saved? (Everyone??)

There has been an extraordinary range of views in Christianity about who will be “saved,” whether people have any say in the matter, what it requires, whether salvation can be lost, and … most everything else connected with this central teaching of the religion.  It may seem odd that disagreements among Christian thinkers would involve [...]

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Will “Everyone be Saved? (Everyone??)

There has been an extraordinary range of views in Christianity about who will be “saved,” whether people have any say in the matter, what it requires, whether salvation can be lost, and … most everything else connected with this central teaching of the religion.  It may seem odd that disagreements among Christian thinkers would involve [...]

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