Bart Ehrman’s Nutshell and More
From The Book of James in a Nutshell as the first post in the series on James by Bart Ehrman’s one-sentence, fifty-word summary from here.
The Book of James consists of ethical instruction for followers of Jesus who are to live in ways pleasing to God as a way of demonstrating their faith, since anyone who thinks they can be saved only through what they believe does not understand that “faith without works is dead.”
2nd Post – James: Who, When, and Why? Does It Claim to be by THAT James (the brother of Jesus)? August 3, 2025
3rd Post – Could James, the Brother of Jesus, Even Write?
4th Post – Why James Did Not Write James August 6, 2025
5th Post – Why Would Someone Forge the Letter of James?