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The third of IVP’s critically acclaimed series of dictionaries of the New Testament provides focused study on the often-neglected portions of the New Testament: Acts, Hebrews, the General Epistles and Revelation. Furthermore, its scope goes beyond the life of the New Testament church to include the work of the apostolic fathers and early Christianity up through the middle of the second century. ...

The usage of kyrios in James is easier to analyze than in some NT books. In thirteen instances kyrios is used, and in all but four it seems certain that the reference is to God, not Jesus. The references to the Lord Jesus Christ in James 1:1 and James 2:1 provide almost the only clear evidence that this homiletical document is a Christian one, if one did not recognize the echoes of the Sermon on the Mount in various portions of James (see Witherington, Sage 1994). In the context of a Christian
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