in James’s appeal to memory (1:23–25) and in his presentation of moral exemplars for imitation (2:21–25; 5:10–11, 16–18). But James has more coherence than appears at a first reading. Portions of the composition are structured in the dialogical style associated with the Greco-Roman diatribe. In the diatribe, an imagined interlocutor is engaged in a give-and-take of rhetorical questions and incisive answers that makes for lively reading. Splendid examples are James 2:14–26 and 3:1–12. The rhetorical