Just James : The Brother of Jesus in History and Tradition

by Painter, John

• ISBN13: 9780800631697
• ISBN10: 0800631692
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

Brings James out of the shadows to show the important role he played in the beginnings of Christianity.

Author Biography

John Painter, an Anglican, is a professor of theology at St. Mark's National Theological Centre at Charles Sturt University in Canberra

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Abbreviations	xii
The Death of a Legend	1	(10)
Just James
Part I: The Gospels, Acts, and the Letters of Paul
The Gospels: James and the Family of Jesus	11	(31)
The Family in the Gospels	11	(3)
The Role of the Family	12	(1)
James: Follower or Opponent?	13	(1)
John: The Family as Follwers	14	(6)
John 2:12: The Faithful Family	15	(1)
John 7:3--5: The Brothers as Unbelievers?	16	(2)
John 19:25--27: The Ideal Disciples and the Absence of James	18	(2)
The Synoptics: The Markan Framework and Its Interpretation	20	(1)
Matthew
Luke
Mark: A Critique of Disciples and Family	20	(14)
Mark 3:20--21: Disciples or Family?	21	(7)
Mark 3:31--35: The Eschatological Family	28	(3)
Mark 6:3--4 Jesus' Rejection in His Own Country	31	(3)
Mark 15:40 and Parallels: The Women at the Cross	34	(1)
Matthew: Nativity and Rejection	34	(3)
Matt 1:18--25: The Nativity	35	(1)
Matt 12:46--50: The Eschatological Family	35	(1)
Matt 13:53--58: The Proverb of Rejection	36	(1)
Luke: The Idealization of the Family	37	(5)
Luke 1:26--56: The Role of Mary in Luke's Nativity Story	38	(1)
Luke 4:16--30: The Rejection at Nazareth	38	(3)
Luke 8:19--21: The True Family of Jesus	41	(1)
Acts: James as Convert or Foundation Leader?	42	(16)
Acts 1:14: The Role of Jesus' Family in the Earliest Church	42	(1)
Acts 12:17: The Leadsership of James	42	(2)
The Hebrews and the Hellenists	44	(4)
Acts 15: James and the Council of Jerusalem	48	(6)
Acts 21:17--26: James as Leader of the Jerusalem Church	54	(2)
Acts 21:27--36; 23:12--22: James and the Arrest of Paul	56	(2)
The Letters of Paul: Paul and James	58	(25)
Galatians: The Two Missions in Antioch and Jerusalem	58	(20)
Gal 1:17--19: Leadership in Jerusalem	59	(2)
Gal 2:1--10: The Pillars and the Leadership of the Two Missions	61	(6)
Gal 2:11--14: James and the Dispute at Antioch	67	(6)
Two Missions, Many Factions	73	(5)
1 Corinthians: Rivalry between James, Peter, and Paul	78	(5)
1 Cor 9:5--6: The Role fo Wives and Work in the Two Missions	78	(1)
1 Cor 15:5--8: Rival Appearance Traditions	79	(4)
James, Peter, Matthew, and Paul: Diversity and Conflict in the Two Missions	83	(22)
Peter and James as Opponents of Paul	83	(1)
Peter and James and the Leadership Question	84	(1)
Matthew and the Gentile Mission	85	(1)
B. H. Streeter and the Conflict between the Two Missions	86	(2)
Matthew and Antioch	88	(2)
The Law in Matthew	90	(5)
Matt 5:17--20	90	(2)
Matthew and Q: Matt 11:12--13	92	(2)
Matt 28:19--20	94	(1)
Models of Leadership and Mission	95	(10)
Part II: Images of James in the Early Church
Tradition in Eusebius: James the Just, Brother of the Lord, First Bishop and Martyr	105	(54)
HE 1.12.4--5: Paul on James, according to Eusebius	107	(2)
HE 1.13-1--22; 2.1.6--7: The Abgar Incident---An Interlude?	109	(1)
HE 2.1.2--5: The Use of Unspecified and Specific Sources	110	(1)
HE 2.1.2: The Summary Statement	111	(2)
HE 2.1.3--5: Two Quotations from Clement	113	(4)
HE 2.1.5: Eusebius Appeals to Paul to Clarify the Identity of James	117	(1)
HE 2.23.1--25: The Martyrdom of James	118	(24)
HE 2.23.1--3: The Summary by Eusebius	118	(1)
HE 2.23.3--18: Hegesippus according to Eusebius	119	(11)
HE 2.23.19: Eusebius's Concluding Summary of Hegesippus	130	(2)
HE 2.23.20: First ``Quotation'' of Josephus	132	(1)
HE 2.23.21--24: Josephus and the Martyrdom of James	133	(9)
HE 2.23.24--25: Final Summary on James and Reference to the Epistle	142	(1)
HE 3.5.2--3: Summary Statements Concerning James as First Bishop and Martyr	142	(1)
HE 3.7.7--9; 3.11.1; 3.12.1: The Death of James and the Siege of Jerusalem	143	(4)
HE 3.7.7--9: The Delay of the Siege	143	(1)
HE 3.11.1; 3.12.1; After the Siege	144	(3)
HE 3.19.1--3.20.7: The Family of Jesus until the Reign of Trajan	147	(2)
HE 3.32.1--6: Symeon in the Time of Trajan	149	(2)
HE 4.5.1--4: The Traditional List of the Bishops of Jerusalem	151	(1)
HE 4.22.4: The Jerusalem Succession and the Beginning of Heresy	152	(2)
HE 7.19.1: The Throne of James	154	(2)
Conclusion: Eusebius on James	156	(3)
The Nag Hammadi Library: James as Successor to Jesus and Repository of Secret Tradition	159	(23)
The Coptic Gospel of Thomas: Appointed by the Risen Lord	160	(3)
The Apocryphon of James: James and the Secret Tradition	163	(5)
The First Apocalypse of James: The Brother of the Lord and the Chain of Succession	168	(6)
The Second Apocalypse of James: The Revelation Discourse of Jesus to ``the Just One''	174	(3)
Conclusion	177	(5)
The Apocrypha and Later Christian Evidence: Bishop of Bishops and Bulwark of Truth	182	(45)
The Gospel of the Hebrews: The Brother of Jesus as the First Witness	183	(4)
The Pseudo-Clementines: Bishop of Bishops in the Church of the Hebrews	187	(11)
The Ascents of James and the Martyrdom Tradition	188	(1)
The Kerygmata Petrou and the Epistula Petri on Peter, Paul, and James	189	(2)
The Pseudo-Clementines and Jewish Christianity	191	(7)
The Protevangelium of James: James the Son of Joseph	198	(2)
Origen: The Brothers of Jesus and James in Pseudo-Josephus	200	(8)
Commentary on Matthew X.17	201	(3)
Contra Celsum 1.47; 2.13	204	(2)
Conclusions	206	(2)
The Panarion of Epiphanius: The Royal and Priestly Role of the First Son of Joseph	208	(5)
Jerome and Helvidius: James as the Cousin or Brother of Jesus	213	(7)
Conclusion	220	(7)
Part III: James and Jewish Christianity
Jewish Christianity, the Righteous Sufferer, and the Epistle of James	227	(50)
Jewish Christianity	228	(6)
The Epistle of James	234	(35)
The Teaching of the Epistle of James	248	(12)
The Epistle of James and the Jesus Tradition	260	(5)
James and Paul	265	(4)
Just James	269	(8)
Excursus: Robert Eisenman's James the Brother of Jesus	277	(12)
Bibliography	289	(14)
Index of Biblical and Ancient Sources	303	(14)
Index of Modern Authors	317	(4)
Index of Subjects	321