The Scandalous Messages of James

James’ letter made many people suspicious. Even though it was probably written at the end of the first century, it did not make it into the canon until the end of the forth century. Even then it still faced challenges and criticism until after the formation of the canon. Even Martin Luther attacked the book of James, saying it was not faithful to the gospel of Christ, that it had nothing of the nature of the gospel about it. Martin Luther actually placed the book of James at the end of his German Translation of the New Testament. The books of Hebrews, Jude, and Revelation soon joined the book of James. Martin Luther detested these books so much that he did not list them in the table of contents. Even the modern editions of the German translation still has these books at the end, only now they are included in the table of contents. Even today, the book of James is still not as popular as other books. At some churches the letter is skipped because it makes the rich people uncomfortable. The letter of Jame

The greeting is very simple; the author calls himself a servant of God and Jesus Christ. He does no feel the need to add things to his name (though it would have helped us to identify who James is). Instead he introduces himself in a very humble matter. He does this so that the poor can identify with him. When James write both God and Jesus Christ, he was correlating the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, Tamez says, “such an identification with those who suffer is in itself a reason for joy” (page 29).

a) War, contentiousness, greed, wastefulness

Tamez gives an overview of the chapters of James; I will only list a few, as some of them are long.

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