Help me out: Obadiah and early Christianity

[Tenorikuma]

I'm investigating the possibility that "Oblias", an alternate name of James the Just according to Hegesippus, was actually a corruption of "Obdias" (i.e. "Obadiah"). Lambda and delta are fairly easy letters to mix up in a handwritten manuscript. I'm coming up almost blank, however. Does anyone know of connections between early Jewish Christianity and either the biblical prophet Obadiah or another contemporary Jew by that name?

[rakovsky]

Great question.
Did you ever get anywhere?
Someone thought oblias could be from Hebrew yoblah, meaning leading, iirc.