Epistle of James

Iakobou Epistole

Anonymous (traditionally identified with James, brother of Jesus and leader of the Jerusalem church; authorship and date are both genuinely disputed among critical scholars) · c. AD 100-130 · place of composition unknown (Israel) · letters

James is a wisdom-inflected homily insisting that faith without corresponding action is dead, a line often read as a direct response to a simplified popular reading of Pauline theology, delivered with almost no reference to Jesus's death or resurrection.