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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...

There is significant overlapping between the general characteristics of the sub-genre of paraenesis and wisdom instruction. They are both marked by imperatives and aphorisms. One of the most prominent features of James is the presence of a striking amount of imperatives, a total of 52 imperatives and 1 imperatival participle out of 108 verses (BibleWork’s syntactical count). 1 Thessalonians and 1 Peter, the other two epistles in the New Testament that have been
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