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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...

textual evidence, but it is also unwise to broaden terms when the texts do not permit that. In “trials of any kind” one might think James has everything and anything in mind, but the text is not this general.40 James mentions these manifestations of persecution: stresses connected to economic poverty (1:9, 27; 2:15–16), favoritism for the wealthy and against the poor (2:1–4, 9), economic abuse and injustice (2:5–7), blasphemy of Jesus Christ by those with sufficient political power (2:7), and economic
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