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In his commentary on the letter of James, Hartin offers a unique approach toward understanding a much-neglected writing. Refusing to read the letter of James through the lens of Paul, Hartin approaches the letter in its own right. He takes seriously the address to “the twelve tribes in the Dispersion” (James 1:1) as directed to Jews who had embraced the message of Jesus and were living outside...

continued to influence the Protestant assessment on James down to the present. In the Roman Catholic Church a contrary reaction developed. The Council of Trent (1546) defended the canonicity of James as well as its apostolic authorship (see Henrici Denzinger, Enchiridion Symbolorum Definitionum et Declarationum de Rebus Fidei et Morum [German ed. by Peter Hünermann with Helmut Hoping, Kompendium der Glaubensbekenntnisse und kirchlichen Lehrentscheidungen (37th ed. Freiburg: Herder, 1991)] 1503).
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