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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...

5:48 sees the quest for perfection occurring in the context of an imitatio Dei (see William D. Davies, The Settting of the Sermon on the Mount [Atlanta: Scholars, {1964} 1989] 212–13). 5. If any of you is lacking in wisdom: This passage is linked to the previous one by means of the catchwords leipomenoi—leipetai (lacking in nothing—lacking in wisdom). Wisdom is not the Stoic notion of “science” (Ropes 139), but the Hebrew concept of knowing how to conduct life in conformity with God’s Law. Wisdom
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