its content should have appealed to many.134 It was far less popular than either 1 Clement or Hermas, two closely related writings. It appears to have circulated at the margins of the Christian circles we know about. Certainly it was not reckoned important enough to receive any discussion at all before Origen, and no one before him refers to it either as scripture or as written by James. Remarkably, one cannot even detect its influence in the second-century pseudepigrapha written in James’ name.135