TY  - BOOK
AU  - James Riley Strange
PY  - 2010
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453904886
TI  - The Moral World of James
T2  - Setting the Epistle in its Greco-Roman and Judaic Environments
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0488-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050947
N2  - In The Moral World of James, James Riley Strange compares the moral system in the Epistle of James with other Greco-Roman and Judaic texts. The author of the epistle prescribed moral practices in a world in which other people, both pagan and Jewish, had long been expressing similar concerns, and more would continue to take up the task centuries after Christianity was well established in the Roman Empire. In this fresh and thick analysis, Strange’s systemic comparison of texts (among them works of Plato, Plutarch, Epictetus, and Aelius Aristides, as well as Greek Magical Papyri, tractates of the Mishnah, and the Community Rule of the Dead Sea Scrolls) reveals how James’s vision of a distinctive way of community life was both part of and distinct from the moral and religious systems among which it emerged.
KW  - Formative Judaism, James, Early Christianity, Catholic Epistles, New Testament, Greco-Roman Religion
LA  - English
ER  -