James among the Classicists : : Reading the Letter of James in Light of Ancient Literary Criticism.

• Superior document: Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica (SANt) ; v.8
• Author: Jónsson, Sigurvin Lárus.
• Place / Publishing House: Gottingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica (SANt)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 pages)

"This book gives attention to the language and style of the letter of James, with a hypothesis about its rhetorical purpose in mind. It focuses on what we can learn about the author of James, by reading the text in light of a guiding research question: How does the author establish and assert a...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Table of Contents
• Body
• 1. Introduction
• 1.1 The Modern Study of James
• 1.2 Ancient Literary Criticism
• 1.2.1 Dionysius of Halicarnassus
• 1.3 The Letter of James and Ancient Literary Criticism
• 2. Interpreting James as Speech-in-Character
• 2.1 The Genre of James
• 2.2 The Quest for Authorship
• 2.3 The Quest for Audience
• 2.4 The Letter of James as Ethopoeia
• 3. Exploring the Language of the Letter of James
• 3.1 The Structure of James
• 3.2 The Repetitive Texture of the Opening Chapter
• 4. Reading James in the Context of Greco-Roman Literary Culture
• 4.1 Classical Tendencies in James
• 4.2 James and Poetic Prose
• 4.3 Evaluating the Style of James
• 4.3.1 Dionysius' Criteria for Evaluating Authors
• 4.3.2 Purity of Greek
• 4.3.3 Lucidity and Clarity
• 4.3.4 Vividness
• 4.3.5 Imitation of Traits of Character and Emotion
• 4.3.6 Qualities of Composition
• 5. The Authority of James
• 5.1 Education and Authority
• 5.2 James as Teacher
• 5.3 James as Exegete
• 6. Wealth and Community in the Letter of James
• 6.1 The Topic of Wealth
• 6.2 Wealth, Violence and the Rhetoric of James
• 7. Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Primary Sources, Editions and Collections
• Secondary Sources
• Subject index
• Primary sources / ancient texts
• Selected modern authors.