Partiality in the Assembly: James 2:2-4
After exhorting the brethren not to hold the faith with acts of partiality (2:1), the author of the Epistle of James presents an example of partiality in the assembly (2:2, 3), followed by a reproach in the form of a rhetorical question (2:4). Dibelius has rightly warned against historicizing this e...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1969]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1969, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-97 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Jakobusbrief 2,2-4
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| Summary: | After exhorting the brethren not to hold the faith with acts of partiality (2:1), the author of the Epistle of James presents an example of partiality in the assembly (2:2, 3), followed by a reproach in the form of a rhetorical question (2:4). Dibelius has rightly warned against historicizing this example, as though it presented an actual incident for which the author gives advice. But even when James 2:2, 3 is understood as an example employed for paraenetic purposes, still we must ask how this example was understood i.e., what type of situation is depicted and what is the point of the example? |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000027632 |