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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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