attributed. Rather we see that the teaching of Jesus has been absorbed and become in effect an integral part of the Christian paraenesis. It is not the teaching of Jesus respectfully preserved, as it were, in a glass case, to be paraded on special occasions. It is the teaching of James, but a teaching which has been impacted, shaped, and molded by the tradition of Israel’s wisdom teaching and particularly by the memory of what Jesus taught as part of that tradition—perhaps, indeed, as the climax