Find Your Way through Our James Study

Here is a guide to what is on the James Web Site.

GETTING STARTED

Order Elsa Tamez' The Scandalous Message of James
Web Links: the Epistle of James
The Epistle of James Home Page
About the Mission of the United Methodist Women
United Methodist Women Home

GUIDED BIBLE STUDY

Using the Guided Bible Study of James
Introduction to Studying James
James 1: Introducing Oppression and Praxis
James 2: Faith and Works
James 3: Be Wise: Control Your Tongue!
James 4: Hope, Perfection and the Coming Judgment
James 5: The Rich are Condemned. Pray!

BACKGROUND ON JAMES

James: An Annotated Bibliography

• James Website Bibliography

Have you read the letter from James?

• Will the Real James Stand Up? Who wrote James?
• When was James written?
• and to Whom is James Sent?
• Is James In or Out? James' path to the Canon
  • James and Canon: The early Evidence
  • The Reformation
  • Read it yourself: Eusebius, Luther and Wesley

What's in a Word? Greek Words James Used

• Blessing, Makarios
• Diaspora
• Patience, Hypomone, Makrothymia
• Perfect, Telios
• Poor, Ptochos
• Rejoice, Chairo, Chara
• Rich, Ploutos
• Works, Ergon

A New Letter Based on Old Text: How James uses Biblical Texts

• James and the Sermon on the Mount/Plain
• Paul and James: Compare or Contrast?
• James uses Old Testament
• James as Commentary on Leviticus 19 and Psalm 12

THE SCANDAL OF JAMES

Are We Living a Scandalous Life?

• Our Riches are Rusting Away Oppression
• Hope for Today? Hope for Tomorrow? Hope
• Faith Without Work is Dead Praxis

JAMES AS A WISDOM TEXT

James Offers A Word for the Wise

JAMES AS APOCALYPSE

James Proclaims: The End is at Hand!

FINDING SPIRITUAL WHOLENESS IN JAMES

James Guides us to Spiritual Wholeness

JAMES' VIEW OF THE WORLD

The World that James is Watching