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If not attested earlier than Origen, what is the basis for the proposition the Letter of James was ginned up by 2nd century fathers? I was responding to Giuseppe, who mentioned a theory about the origin of James: According to some scholars, the Epistle of James was a Jewsih text later christianized...

Thanks for the feedback. Just to be clear, the premiss of the argument is the extensive similarity, verbal and thematic, in the sayings material in Q, Thomas, and James. This is a datum to be explained. There is no need to postulate the existence of a Q document, much less a "Q community" ...

Hello, I'm new to the forum. I take the failure of the quest for a historical Jesus as given. The mythicists have responded to that failure with a clear and fascinating thesis. In general their questions and observations are valid and compelling, eg, why, apart from the four gospels, do the NT autho...