This volume takes up the current debate on the literary profile and the author of the Letter of James. The essays present new insights into James' literary concept and authorial profile and situate the Letter of James within the context of an emerging Christ-believing literary culture.

This volume takes up the current scholarly debate on the literary profile and the author of the Letter of James. The approach reaches beyond the conventional historical quest for James' epistolary authorship and intellectual provenance by combining observations about the explicit, the implicit, the historical, and the literary author with studies on style, rhetoric, literary criticism, genre criticism and literary history, religious profiles, literary patterns of authorship, and communicative structures. The essays of this volume present new insights into James' literary concept and multifaceted authorial profile based on the latest research in ancient (epistolary) author-literature, provide new methodological perspectives on early Christian epistolary authorship, and situate the Letter of James within the context of an emerging Christ-believing literary culture.

Autorentext
Becker, Eve-MarieBorn 1972; 2001 Dr. theol.; 2004 Habilitation; 2006-18 Professor of New Testament Exegesis at Aarhus University/Denmark; 2016-17 Distinguished Visiting Professor of New Testament at Emory University in Atlanta/USA; since 2018 Professor of New Testament at the University of Münster. Jónsson, Sigurvin LárusBorn 1978; 2016-19 PhD Fellow at the Department of Theology, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University/Denmark; 2019 PhD; since 2019 Research Associate at the University of Münster. Luther, SusanneBorn 1979; 2012 Dr. theol.; 2018 Habilitation; 2018-20 Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at the Faculty for Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen (NL); since 2020 Professor of New Testament at the University of Göttingen.

Inhalt
Eve-Marie Becker/Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson/Susanne Luther: Who was "James"? Profiling the Epistolary Author and His Provenience. Introduction to the Volume - Alicia J. Batten: James the Dramatist - Thomas Johann Bauer: Der Jakobusbrief und das Bild des Jakobus im Kontext antiker und frühchristlicher Epistolographie - Eve-Marie Becker: versus ? Jas 3:15, 17 and Phil 3:14 in Comparison - Eve-Marie Becker: Wer ist "Jakobus? Ein typologischer Blick im Rahmen der frühchristlichen Briefkultur - Clarissa Breu: Prosopopöie im Jakobusbrief aus dekonstruktiver Perspektive - Niclas Förster: "Elia war ein Mensch uns gleichartig" (Jak 5,17): Jakobus, Elia und das Gebet des Gerechten in der Perspektive des Jakobusbriefs - Christine Ganslmayer: Der Autor des Jakobusbriefs aus linguistischer Perspektive - George Hinge: The Hexameter in James 1:17: Metrical Forms in Graeco-Roman Prose Literature Between Emulation and Quotation - Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson: The Letter of James as Ethopoeia - John S. Kloppenborg: The Author of James and His Lexical Profile - Susanne Luther: Profiling the Author of the Letter of James: Dealing with Traditions in the Light of Epistolary Authorship Conceptions - Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr: Wer war 'Jakobus' in den Augen seiner Leser? Zu meinem Ansatz der Kommentierung des Jakobusbriefs im EKK - Lorenzo Scornaienchi: Polemik im Jakobusbrief und deren Bedeutung für die Konfiguration des Autors - Nicolas Wiater: Being 'James': Pseudepigraphy and Narrative Identity - Oda Wischmeyer: Who was 'James'? Der Herrenbruder, "ein Namenloser aus den Vielen, ein "role model" oder ein frühchristlicher Lehrer mit Namen Iakbos ? Die Neukommentierung des Jakobusbriefes für Meyers Kritisch-Exegetischen Kommentar - Oda Wischmeyer: Sciptural Classicism? The Letter of James as an Early Christian Literary Document.