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Pastors and scholars have often found the letter of James particularly vexing both to interpret and to apply. Scot McKnight’s commentary expounds James both in its own context and in the context of ancient Judaism, the Greco-Roman world, and the emerging Christian faith. Though interacting with the best available scholarly work on James, McKnight first connects deeply with the text of the letter...

will.18 But even here James has touched the Story with singular impact: James reads and renders the Torah in the way Jesus taught it, namely through the combination of loving God (1:12) and loving others (1:25; 2:8–11). In other words, when it comes to ethics James reads and interprets and applies the Torah through the lens of the Shema (Deut 6:4–9) and the command to love our neighbor as ourselves (Lev 19:18).19 That James interprets ethics in the key of Shema is telling for how to comprehend his
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