Who was 'James'?

This volume takes up the current scholarly debate on the literary profile and the author of the Letter of James. The approach reaches beyond the conventional historical quest for James' epistolary authorship and intellectual provenance by combining observations about the explicit, the implicit, the historical, and the literary author with studies on style, rhetoric, literary criticism, genre criticism and literary history, religious profiles, literary patterns of authorship, and communicative structures. The essays of this volume present new insights into James' literary concept and multifaceted authorial profile based on the latest research in ancient (epistolary) author-literature, provide new methodological perspectives on early Christian epistolary authorship, and situate the Letter of James within the context of an emerging Christ-believing literary culture.

Auteur
Becker, Eve-MarieBorn 1972; 2001 Dr. theol.; 2004 Habilitation; 2006-18 Professor of New Testament Exegesis at Aarhus University/Denmark; 2016-17 Distinguished Visiting Professor of New Testament at Emory University in Atlanta/USA; since 2018 Professor of New Testament at the University of Münster. Jónsson, Sigurvin LárusBorn 1978; 2016-19 PhD Fellow at the Department of Theology, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University/Denmark; 2019 PhD; since 2019 Research Associate at the University of Münster. Luther, SusanneBorn 1979; 2012 Dr. theol.; 2018 Habilitation; 2018-20 Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at the Faculty for Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen (NL); since 2020 Professor of New Testament at the University of Göttingen.