08—Forty Days with James: Through the Book (RPM)

Douglas Jacoby Podcast

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• Interesting facts about James
  • James appears immediately after Acts in many early NTs.
  • Some scholars think James was the first NT document to be written (sometime in the 40s). (Many conservative scholars believe Galatians is the oldest, penned in 48.) Note: James the brother of the Lord was executed in 62.
  • James has 108 verses—about the same length as Philippians, 1 Timothy, 1 Peter, and 1 John. (The Sermon on the Mount, by way of comparison, is 111 verses in length.)
  • The first-century Jewish writer and statesman Josephus devotes more of his history to James than to Jesus.
  • James eventually overtook Peter as the most influential leader in the Jerusalem church community (evident in Acts 15).
• The recording features the translation of British N.T. scholar Ralph P. Martin, as found in The Word Biblical Commentary 48: James (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1988), 3-217. (That's why I call this version "RPM.")

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