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The Genre, Composition And Hermeneutics Of James (PATERNOSTER BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS) - Softcover
The present work examines the employment of wisdom genre with a particular compositional structure and the interpretation of the law according to Jesus' love command by the author of James. By this means James sought to promote perfection and warn the eschatologically renewed people of God in the Diaspora against duplicity.
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Luke L. Cheung holds the degrees of MDiv, MTh and PhD. This book is a development of his doctoral thesis for which he studied at the University of St Andrews. He is currently Associate Professor of New Testament Studies at the China Graduate School of Theology in Hong Kong.
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"Cheung has mastered both the literature on James and that on the relevant Jewish and Hellenistic backgrounds. He has provided a creative new look at the problems of genre and structure that have plagued the study of James. His contribution is a welcome one, which we will be digesting for some time given the significance of his proposals and the extent of his evidence. This work will be required reading for any future scholar wishing to write on James. Hopefully it will lay to rest some of the misperceptions that have been foisted on James ever since Luther."
—Peter H. Davids, The Vineyard Church, Stafford, Texas
"There are emerging signs of a renewal of interest in James and in the place that this work occupies in our understanding both of early Christianity and of the traditions of Jesus. Yet scholars still find it difficult to describe a coherent argument for the work. Luke Cheung makes an important and original contribution to the appreciation of James by demonstrating the significant role attributed to the Shema in its argumentative structure. He relates the appeal to wholehearted commitment in the Shema to the call to perfection in James (in contrast to 'doubleness'), and in doing so also seeks to clarify the vexing relationship between Torah and wisdom in the work. Readers will find this a challenging and enlightening study packed with detail but revealing a helpful new approach to one of the New Testament's most difficult works."
—Ronald A. Piper, University of St. Andrews
—Peter H. Davids, The Vineyard Church, Stafford, Texas
"There are emerging signs of a renewal of interest in James and in the place that this work occupies in our understanding both of early Christianity and of the traditions of Jesus. Yet scholars still find it difficult to describe a coherent argument for the work. Luke Cheung makes an important and original contribution to the appreciation of James by demonstrating the significant role attributed to the Shema in its argumentative structure. He relates the appeal to wholehearted commitment in the Shema to the call to perfection in James (in contrast to 'doubleness'), and in doing so also seeks to clarify the vexing relationship between Torah and wisdom in the work. Readers will find this a challenging and enlightening study packed with detail but revealing a helpful new approach to one of the New Testament's most difficult works."
—Ronald A. Piper, University of St. Andrews
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- PublisherAuthentic Media
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1842270621
- ISBN 13 9781842270622
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages388
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The Genre, Composition and Hermeneutics of James. Foreword By Richard Bauckham. [ Paternoster Biblical and Theological Monographs ]
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