Recovering the Voices of James and Jude
Recovering the Voices of James and Jude
The precise relationship of James and Jude to Jesus is examined on the basis of the evidence of early Christian writings and in dialogue with the classical positions of Epiphanius, Jerome, and Helvidius and their modern proponents. The evidence for the timing of Jesus' half-brothers' conversion to faith in him is also evaluated. While scholarship has tended to pass along the pseudonymity of the epistles of James and Jude as something of a dogma, the traditional arguments against their authenticity are found to be tenuous at best. Based on the level of apocalyptic expectation, reliance on church order, Christology, location, experience, and other factors, the author argues that these epistles preserve the genuine voice of Jesus' half-brothers, leaders in the Jewish Christian movement.
Keywords: Greek, apocalypticism, church order, family of Jesus, brothers of Jesus, James the Just, Jude, Jerusalem church, Judean Christianity
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