views rightly assume that a lesser name requires qualification whereas a greater name does not. The Jesus of Col 4:11 is ‘Jesus Justus’. An early Christian could never have simply called such a one ‘Jesus’: that name, if unqualified, would have signified Jesus of Nazareth. And so likewise, most suppose, is it with the simple Ἰάκωβος of Jas 1:1: the only James who could be introduced without further biographical specification, and who speaks with the authority that this writer does, must be the