Book Of James Analysis

In order to fully understand this book, I thought it was a good idea to know the background information. Further looking into this, I really got intrigued by what I found. James was the brother of Jesus and the leader of

Throughout the history of the Bible, few words have had more controversy than the words, faith, works, and justification. James’ uses a powerful

James life, causes him to struggle with his self-actualization because he does not know who he is or his true identity. However, because he knows so little about his own life, he is led to ask questions and find out answers. “Yet I myself had no idea who I was. I loved my mother yet I looked nothing like her. Neither did I look like the role-models in my life” (91). The only way he figures out who he is, is by asking questions and finding bits and pieces of information. He struggles greatly with himself, and the only way for him to know himself is to know his mother. This gets back to the idea that the parallelism between him and his mother, or chapters 9 and 10, helps him in his

“I did it alone, waiting in the dark doorway of a barbershop as the women got off the bus, ripping the purses out of their protesting hands as they cried out in fear and shock” (McBride 34). But according to James, he had every right in the world to steal from other people. At that time he was feeling that he “was getting back at the world for injustices I had suffered” (McBride 34). Several years later, James finally realized how wrong he was. He felt horrible about the everything he had done, and completely regretted all the decisions he made things he did as a teenager. James even claimed that “If you sat me down and asked me which injustices I was talking about, I wouldn't be able to name them if my life depended on it” (McBride 34). In the beginning and the end of the book, James perspective on the world is very similar. It took a lot of questioning the world, and him making numerous wrong decisions, but in the end, all he discovered is that he was right all along. James learned that it’s not alright to take out your frustrations on the world and on other people, it’s not fair to them or yourself because it’ll just make you feel worse in the

(2) The textbook also mentions "Jewish Sources" related to early Christianity, citing Josephus as the most important of these. Who was Josephus, what works did he write, and what did he write about Jesus?

As, he becomes older he realizes, he needs to understand who his mother is and where she came from. Knowing who she his will help him understand himself and find his true identity. James really struggled for a long time trying to find his identity. After many years he came to a realization, “There are two worlds bursting inside me trying to get out. I had to find out more about who I was, and in order to find out who I was, I had to find out who my mother was.”(McBride 266) He finally realized that it was because of his mothers hidden past that he was struggling with his identity. This is important because here, he was enlightened and was very motivated to find out where his mother came from and who she was. Ruth’s hidden past throughout James childhood made it difficult for him to understand himself. In the begging in the book Ruth tells the reader, “You want to talk about my family and here I been dead to them for fifty years… They want no parts of me and I don’t want no parts of them.”(McBride 1) Right off the bat Ruth blocks her family out of her life, she is “dead” to them. This is important because James knows nothing of her past. He doesn’t know anyone from his mother family or even where they once lived. He knew nothing. She has no past to share with James and this doesn’t help along with being biracial and his mother was open, maybe James wouldn’t have had such a hard time growing up trying to find his

This type of upbringing forced him to have a mind of his own taking care of himself without his parents. The last influence on James's life was the church. Here he learned about God and the bible. James has stated that he would leave all his pain and worry to the Lord, because he was the only person that could fix his problems. The church certainly gave him the support during his developmental growth as a child. He never received that from his parents because they were not around.

In James's time, it was a period where one of the most corrupt presidents of the century was in power and had high authority; Georges W. Bush. This resulted in the utter absence of spirituality and lead to brainwashing peoples' minds with false values and objectives/priorities. James lived in a rural middle class occupied area near Birmingham, Alabama. Life at the time was almost much about surviving, building careers, and taking care of meaningless responsibilities, very much comparable to today. Anyhow, life was often perceived as being very difficult and to have a normal secular life was perceived as too hard because everyone was so busy with competing against each other, trying to be better than the other and thinking that's all there is

From that day on James devoted his life to Jesus, helping to spread the word of God across the

The purpose of this table is to provide a fairly complete list of the widely suggested parallels. Since a number of these parallels are still so weak, reflecting only some conceptual similarity or a single shared word, one may legitimately question whether they can offer any decisive evidence for clarifying the type of relationship between James and the supposed parallel synoptic traditions. Of the twenty-four parallels list only eight have strong parallels. It was only with the development of scholarship dealing with the source criticism of the gospels generally, and more specifically with the formulation of the Q hypothesis that a literary relationship between James and the hypothetical source of the double tradition material began to emerge.

This first volume contains 39 books, and 929 chapters: almost identical to the Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible. Interpretation of the scriptures are more about God ‘The Father’, himself, but lays the foundation for the second volume the New Testament. Originally written in Greek about 45 AD, this volume contains 27 books and 260 chapters. Its scriptures tell the story of the life of Jesus, believed by Christians to be the Messiah, Son of God in human form, and sent by God to fulfill the promises and prophesies of the Old Testament.

The book of James is not very tidy when it comes to fitting into any of the other genres of literature. Some consider it to more of a circular rather than an epistle and it is quite possible that both Paul and Peter had read the Epistle of James, at least there are several coincidences between them.7 Because it was written to such a broad audience and because it contains many references to the Old Testament, James hardly fits into any category very neatly. Therefore, it may be best to see James as a literary circular since it does not address any particular needs at a given moment. James was apparently teaching the victims of the Diaspora.

According to Zane Hodges in The Epistle of James, “The Epistle of James was a pastoral letter written to the dispersed Jewish believers of Palestine, probably at a time before Paul’s initial mission to the Gentile world, i.e., to Arabia. This would suggest a date closely approximating A.D. 34 or 35.” In regard to Zane Hodges’s view, James is the earliest New Testament document that we have. There is little to none evidence do disprove that James was written at an early date

The KJV Bible is a book making book. The Bible has served for many purposes over the centuries and holds so many genres in just one book. The Bible is very interesting because it we could fully comprehend what was being taught. That’s why the KJV Bible has had a tremendous effect on British Literature throughout the centuries because not only did the Bible help to shape the English speaking language but also has helped very famous British writers to use examples from the bible to help relate to their topics in which they write upon.

The Birth of the King James Bible started a new era and a new way of thinking which greatly impacted many things people do. Anyone picking up the Bible for the first time, or skimming through its contents, is likely to be confused by the variety and often the diversity of the individual books that make it up (Rather, 2009, 11). The King James version of the Bible is sometimes confusing but it greatly impacted many aspects of life and affected many things we do and say today. People adopted many things from this version