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Theological journals are a tremendous resource for biblical studies. However, anyone who has searched for copies of theological journals knows that they are difficult to find and impossible to buy. Even if you are fortunate enough to have a library of journals in print form, they take up lots of shelf space. With the print editions, finding a topic or Scripture reference can be difficult. The...

JETS 60:1 (March 2017) p. 129 For James, then, a trial serves as an anvil upon which spiritual lives are hammered into maturity. They are, to put it differently, part of God’s sanctifying process that hones the skills needed to stay committed to the faith. Second, life’s trials result in blessings (1:12), perhaps an echoing reference to Jesus’s Beatitudes (Matt 5:10–11). Part of these blessings includes an eschatological reward for those who endure suffering until life’s end; those who successfully
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