Just James: The Brother of Jesus in History and Tradition (1997 Painter), book

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Just James: The Brother of Jesus in History and Tradition (1997) is a book by John Painter.

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Published in Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina, 1997. Republished by the same publisher in 2004.

Table of Contents (2004 edition)

  • Just James: The Death of a Legend

Part I: The Gospels, Acts, and the Letters of Paul

  • 1. The Gospels: James and the Family of Jesus
    • The Family in the Gospels
      • The Role of the Family
      • James: Follower or Opponent
    • John: The Family as Followers
      • John 2:12: The Faithful Family
      • John 7:3-5: The Brothers as Unbelievers?
      • John 19:25-27: The Ideal Disciples and the Absence of James
    • The Synoptics: The Markan Framework and Its Interpretation by Matthew and Luke
    • Mark: A Critique of Disciples and Family
      • Mark 3:20-21: Disciples or Family?
      • Mark 3:31-35: The Eschatological Family
      • Mark 6:3-4: Jesus' Rejection of His Own Country
      • Mark 15:40 and Parallels: The Women at the Cross
    • Matthew: Nativity and Rejection
      • Matt 1:18-25: The Nativity
      • Matt 12:46-50: The Eschatological Family
      • Math 13-53:58: The Proverb of Rejection
    • Luke the Idealization of the Family
      • Luke 1:26-56: The Role of Mary in Luke's Nativity Story
      • Luke 4:16-30: The Rejection of Nazareth
      • Luke 8:19-21: The True Family of Jesus
  • 2. Acts: James as Convert or Foundation Leader?
    • Acts 1:14: The Role of Jesus' Family in the Earliest Church
    • Acts 12:17: The Leadership of James
    • The Hebrews and the Hellenists
    • Acts 15: James and the Council of Jerusalem
    • Acts 21:17-26: James as Leader of the Jerusalem Church
    • Acts 21:27-36; 23:12-22: James and the Arrest of Paul
  • 3. The Letters of Paul: Paul and James
    • Galatians: The Two Missions in Antioch and Jerusalem
      • Gal 1:17-19: Leadership in Jerusalem
      • Gal 2:1-10: The Pillars and the Leadership of the Two Missions
      • Gal 2:11-14: James and the Dispute at Antioch
      • Two Missions, Many Factions
    • 1 Corinthians: Rivalry between James, Peter, and Paul
      • 1 Cor 1:5-6: The Role of Wives and Work in the Two Missions
      • 1 Cor 15:5-8: Rival Appearance Traditions
  • 4. James, Peter, Matthew, and Paul: Diversity and Conflict in the Two Missions
    • Peter and James as Opponents of Paul
    • Peter and James and the Leadership Question
    • Matthew and the Gentile Mission
    • B. H. Streeter and the Conflict between the Two Missions
    • Matthew and Antioch
    • The Law in Matthew
      • Matt 5:17-20
      • Matthew and Q: Matt 11:12-13
      • Matt 28:19-20
    • Models of Leadership and Mission

Part II: Images of James in the Early Church

  • 5. Tradition in Eusebius: James the Just, Brother of the Lord, First Bishop and Martyr
    • HE 1.12.4-5: Paul and James according to Josephus
    • HE 1.13.1-22; 2.1.6-7: The Abgar Incident: An Interlude?
    • HE 2.1.2-5: The Use of Unspecified and Specific Sources
    • HE 2.1.2: The Summary Statement
    • HE 2.1.3-5: Two Quotations from Clement
    • HE 2.1.5: Eusebius Appeals to Paul to Clarify the Identity of James
    • HE 2.23.1-25: The Martyrdom of James
      • HE 2.23.1-3: The Summary by Eusebius
      • HE 2.23.3-18: Hegesippus according to Eusebius
      • HE 2.23.19: Eusebius' Concluding Summary of Hegesippus
      • HE 2.23.20: First "Quotation" of Josephus
      • HE 2.23.21-24: Josephus and the Martyrdom of James
      • HE 2.23.24-25: Final Summary on James and the Reference to the Epistle
    • HE 3.5.2-3: Summary Statements Concerning James as First Bishop and Martyr
    • HE 3.7.7-9; 3.11.1; 3.12.1: The Death of Jesus and the Siege of Jerusalem
      • HE 3.7.7-9: The Delay of the Siege
      • HE 3.11.1; 3.12.1: After the Siege
    • HE 3.19.1-3.20.7: The Family of Jesus until the Reign of Trajan
    • HE 3.32.1-6: Symeon in the Time of Trajan
    • HE 4.5.1-4: The Traditional List of the Bishops of Jerusalem
    • HE 4.22.4: The Jerusalem Succession and the Beginning of Heresy
    • HE 7.19.1: The Throne of James
    • Conclusion: Eusebius on James
  • 6. The Nag Hammadi Library: James as Successor to Jesus and Repository to Secret Tradition
    • The Coptic Gospel of Thomas: Appointed by the Risen Lord
    • The Apocryphon of James: James and the Secret Tradition
    • The First Apocalypse of James: The Brother of the Lord and the Chain of Succession
    • The Second Apocalypse of James: The Revelation Discourse of Jesus to "the Just One"
    • Conclusion
  • 7. The Apocrypha and Later Christian Evidence: Bishop of Bishops and Bulwark of Truth
    • The Gospel of the Hebrews: The Brother of Jesus as the First Witness
    • The Pseudo-Clementines: Bishop of Bishops in the Church of the Hebrews
      • The Ascent of James and the MArtyrdom Tradition
      • The Kerygmata Petrou and the Epistula Petri on Peter, Paul, and James
      • The Pseudo-Clementines and Jewish Christianity
    • The Protevangelium of James: James the Son of Joseph
    • Origen: The Brother of Jesus and James in Pseudo-Josephus
      • Commentary on Matthew X.17
      • Contra Celsum 1.47; 2.13
      • Conclusions
    • The Panarion of Epiphanius: The Royal and Priestly Role of the First Son of Joseph
    • Jerome and Helvidius: James as the Cousin of Brother of Jesus
    • Conclusion

Part III: James and Jewish Christianity

  • 8. Jewish Christianity, the Righteous Sufferer, and the Epistle of James
    • Jewish Christianity
    • The Epistle of James
      • The Teachings of the Epistle of James
      • The Epistle of James and the Jesus Tradition
      • James and Paul
    • Just James
  • Excursus: Robert Eisenman's James the Brother of Jesus

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