The Ascents of James: History and Theology of a by Robert E. Van Voorst

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Instead, using the contents of the EpPt and Cont as a key, he isolated the KerygmataP from R and H. Claiming it is gnostic Jewish Christian rather than Ebionite, Strecker located the work in Syria and dated it ca. 200 Another source behind G is the AJ. 3, and many smaller ones throughout. Jesus the Prophet like Moses is its main christological figure, and it stems from a law-observant, anti-Pauline community. , 38-46. The same position on Strecker's source criticism is found in Schoeps's review of Strecker, "Das Judenchristentum in den Pseudoklementinen," ZRGG 11 (1959) 72-7.

3) In both documents, the order in treating these two features seems to be the same - first is the anti-sacrificial polemic, and second is anti-Paulinism. " R1 says that James "went u p . . 8; cf. 2). Pan. " But there are also dissimilarities betweenAz/i. 33-71. The AJ known to Epiphanius attacks Paul as a Gentile, and claims that his opposition to the law was a result of a frustrated attempt to marry the daughter of a priest. 33-71 does not know this story, or describe Saul/Paul's background, but rather has him thwarting the conversion of the Jewish nation by James and following this up by continued persecution.

147; quoting Headlam, "The Clementine Literature," JTS 3 (1902) 49-50. " ] Like Chapman, E. Schwartz in his essay, "Unzeitgemasse Beobachtungen zu den C l e m e n t i n e n , " d e n i e d the Jewish-Christian provenance of PsCl. H e opposed much of the source criticism of them, especially the work of Hilgenfeld and Waitz. Schwartz advanced several "untimely observations" on source criticism, indicating that he knew he was swimming against a strong stream. " Schwartz held similar views on anAJ source inRl.

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