Westminster Commentary on James – Richard John Knowling
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This is an exegetical commentary on the Letter of James by Richard John Knowling, Professor of New Testament at King’s College, London. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain book available for digitisation.
Richard John Knowling [1851-1919], St James with an Introduction and Notes. Westminster Commentaries. London: Methuen & Co., 1904. Hbk. pp.160. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]
Table of Contents
- Prefatory Note
- Preface
- Introduction
- Interest of the Epistle
- Not only Jews, but Christian Jews
- Inference that the writer might be a hearer of our Lord, or at all events a Jew of Palestine
- Objections urged against the knowledge of Greek in this writer and answer to such objections
- If written by this James, terminus ad quem of his death
- Recent advocates of a very early date
- This practical bearing of the Epistle enables us to understand ii. 14-26, and the meaning of St James’s language
- Question of literary dependence between Romans and James Discussed
- Extra-canonical writings
- External evidence, why not more decisive
- Reasons why the epistle is still attacked
- Text, Paraphrase and Additional Notes
- Index
