Reading James with New Eyes

Robert L. Webb, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada. Robert Webb is the co-editor of Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels, and the Claims of History and the author of John the Baptizer and Prophet: A Socio-Historical Study. John S. Kloppenborg is Professor of Religion at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is well-known for his ground-breaking work on the Sayings Gospel Q. His most recent publication is Excavating Q: The History and Setting of the Sayings Gospel. He is currently writing a commentary on James for the Hermeneia series.

• "Introduction" by Robert L. Webb and John S. Kloppenborg; "Ideological Strategies in the Letter of James" by Alicia Batten, Pacific Lutheran University; "Reception and Emulation of the Jesus Traditions in James" by John S. Kloppenborg, University of Toronto; "The Languages of 'Household' and 'Kingdom' in the Epistle of James: A Socio-Rhetorical Study" by Wesley H. Wachob, Candler School of Theology, Emory University; "A Reassessment of the Rhetoric of the Epistle of James and Its Implications for Christian Origins" by Duane F. Watson, School of Theology, Malone College. "Anti-Imperial Discourse in James 2:14-26: A Postcolonial Reading" by Jason Coker, Drew University; "Pure and Undefiled Religion': Purity and Pollution as a Means of Cultural Antagonism in the Epistle of James" by Darian Lockett, University of St. Andrews; "The Letter of James as a Document of Paulinism? A Study in Reception-History" by Margaret M. Mitchell, University of Chicago.

-Mention. The Chronicle of Higher Education/ July 13, 2007