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In The Genre, Composition and Hermeneutics of the Epistle of James, Luke L. Cheung examines the employment of the wisdom genre with a certain compositional structure, and the interpretation of the law through Jesus’ tradition of the double love command by the author of the Epistle of James to serve his purpose in promoting perfection and warning against doubleness among the eschatologically...

early Christian paraenesis has to be understood in the larger context of Greek and Jewish paraenetical traditions. The examination into both parallels with, and antecedents of, the paraenetic materials of James in the corpora of hellenistic and Jewish writings would help us to ascertain its genre. An awareness of the characteristics of the genre may also contribute to a firmer grasp of the nature and the intention of the work as a whole.
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