they do lead to the recognition of one consistent feature of Jas: the entire document lacks continuity in thought. There is not only a lack of continuity in thought between individual sayings and other smaller units, but also between larger treatises. That is not to say that the letter has no coherence of any sort.5 Rather it simply emphasizes the basic difference between this text and the coherent discussions which make up most of the Pauline letters.6 To be sure, the question of the epistolary