by Eric F. Mason (Editor), Darian R. Lockett (Editor)

This accessible student introduction to contemporary scholarship on the Epistle of James explores the possible sources and backgrounds used by the author of James, the genre and literary structure of the book, and its major theological themes. Subsequent chapters examine the book's reception in the early church, the relationship between the epistle and the historical James, and major Catholic and Protestant interpretations of the book in the Reformation era.