Dieser Band greift die aktuelle Debatte über das literarische Profil und den Autor des Jakobusbriefes auf. Die Aufsätze geben neue Einblicke in das literarische Konzept und das Autorenprofil des Jakobus und stellen den Brief in den Kontext einer entstehenden christlich geprägten Literaturkultur.

This volume takes up the current scholarly debate on the literary profile and the author of the Letter of James. The approach reaches beyond the conventional historical quest for James' epistolary authorship and intellectual provenance by combining observations about the explicit, the implicit, the historical, and the literary author with studies on style, rhetoric, literary criticism, genre criticism and literary history, religious profiles, literary patterns of authorship, and communicative structures. The essays of this volume present new insights into James' literary concept and multifaceted authorial profile based on the latest research in ancient (epistolary) author-literature, provide new methodological perspectives on early Christian epistolary authorship, and situate the Letter of James within the context of an emerging Christ-believing literary culture.