An Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament
An Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament
James Moffatt
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158-165; McGiffert*), or a Jacobean nucleus (Oesterley), to which later excerpts from other writings were added, may be postulated. The conjecture (G. C. Martin, ExpJ iii. 174-184) that the writing was originally a collection of logia with comments made by James the brother of Jesus, and issued in his name after a. D. 70 as a treatise on practical Christianity, helps to reconcile the late circulation of the book with its primitive character, and clears up the address ; but it does not explain 2...^^"^*^, and it Hes open to most of the objections valid against any theory of apostolic authorship, though it is better than Weizsacker's (AA. Ii. 27 f. ) similar hypothesis of an Ebionitic anti-Pauline tract, containing glosses and expansions of Matthsean logia, written not by James but by some one after a. D. 70. The question of the date thus depends upon the crucial problem of the authorship, and that in turn falls to be decided primarily upon two internal features, the religious colour and the style.
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