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Ausgabe: | März/2022 |
Spalte: | 202–204 |
Kategorie: | Neues Testament |
Autor/Hrsg.: | Deines, Roland |
Titel/Untertitel: | Jakobus. Im Schatten des Größeren. |
Verlag: | Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2017. 384 S. m. Abb. = Biblische Gestalten, 30. Kart. EUR 24,00. ISBN 9783374040278. |
Rezensent: | Markus Bockmuehl |
Ya’aqov ben Yosef, known to the church as St James ›the Just‹ or sometimes ›the Less‹, remains the most unfamiliar and misunderstood major early Christian leader. The influence and authority of this brother of Jesus among the Christian communities of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel were unsurpassed during his lifetime. And yet, recent centuries of critical scholarship on the subject have tended to increase rather than to lift the fog surrounding this figure who is as emblematic as he remains enigmatic.
Roland Deines is Professor and Dean of Research at Internationale Hochschule Liebenzell (Germany), and »emeritus« Professor at the University of Nottingham (UK). His 370-page volume on James the Just is the most substantial volume in Leipzig’s extensive ...
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