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The Moral World of James: Setting the Epistle in its Greco-Roman and Judaic Environments / James Riley Strange
Contents
Editor's Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part One: Morals, Religion, and James's Community Vision
Chapter One. Introduction: The Epistle of James as Community Instruction
The Unity of James 5:13-20
The Religious Practices of 5:13-20
What Do "Moral" and "Religious" Mean?
Comparing the Epistle of James with OtherTexts
Diagnostic Categories for Comparison
Notes
Chapter Two. James's Community Vision: Life, Death, and Restoration
Making Community: Giving Life
Threats to the Community: Causing Death
Community Preservation: Restoring Life
The Community at Prayer
The Elders' Prayer for Healing
Confessing Sins to One Another
Returning a Wandering Member
Summary: Morality and Religion in James's Communities
Notes
Part Two: Morals and Religion in the Greco-Roman World
Chapter Three. Ways Not Taken by James: Greco-Roman Visions of Corporate Life
Prayer in Two Treatises of the Platonic Tradition
Piety and the Moral State: Plato's Laws
The Immorality of Foreign Religions: Plutarch's On Superstition
Correction in Two Moralists
Telling the Truth: Plutarch, How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend
The Moral Commentator: Epictetus, "On the Calling of a Cynic"
Notes
Chapter Four. Ways Not Taken by James: The Everyday Practice of Greco-Roman Relgion
Divine Healing Through Magic and Shrines
Taming Divine Powers in the Greek Magical Papyri
The God Powerful and Benevolent at Epidauros
The God Who Directs Destinies: Asklepios and Aelius Aristides
Confession of Sins in Asia Minor
The Confession Inscriptions
Conclusion: Morality and Religion in James and Select Greco-Roman Texts
Notes
Part Three: Morals and Religion in the Judaic World
Chapter Five. Ways Not Taken by James: Judaic Visions of Corporate Life
Prayer
The People of Israel Before God: m. Berakhot
The Exceptional Individual Before God: m. Ta'anit
Healing
Healing Through Prayer and the Physician's Hands: Sirach
Restoring the Household Through Healing and Exorcism: The Story of Tobit
Correction
The Good Man in The Testament of Benjamin
Notes
Chapter Five. The Way Taken by James? The Deeds of the Community in 1QS
The Community at Prayer
Confessing the Sins of the Children of Israel
Correction: Reproof, Isolation, and Exile
Conclusion: Morality and Religion in James and Select Judaic Texts
Notes
Chapter Six. Conclusion: The Moral World of James
Notes
Bibliography of Ancient Sources
Bibliography of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Texts
General Index
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