Part 1: The gospels, acts, and the letters of Paul -- 1. The gospels: James and the Family of Jesus -- The family in the gospels: the role of the family ; James: Follower or opponent? -- John: The family as followers: John 2:12, the faithful family ; John 7:3-5, The brothers as unbelievers? ; John 19:25-27, the ideal disciples and the absence of James -- The synoptics: The Marken framework and its interpretation by Matthew and Luke -- Mark: A critique of disciples and family: Mark 3:20-21, disciples or family? ; Mark 3:31-35, the eschatological family ; Mark 6:3-4, Jesus' rejection in his own country ; Mark 15:40 and parallels: The woman at the cross -- Matthew: Nativity and rejection: Matthew 1:18-25, the nativity ; Matthew 12:46-50, the eschatological family ; Mark 13:53-58, the proverb of rejection -- Luke: The idealization of the family: Luke 1:26-56: The role of Mary in Luke's nativity story ; Luke 4:16-30, The rejection at Nazareth ; Luke 8:19-21: The true family of Jesus -- 2. Acts: James as convert or foundation leader? -- Acts 1:14, the role of Jesus' family in the earliest church -- Acts 12:17: The leadership of James -- The Hebrews and the Hellenists.
Acts 15: James and the council of Jerusalem -- Acts 21:17-26, James as leader of the Jerusalem church -- Acts 21:27-36; 23:12-22: James and the arrest of Paul -- 3. The letter of Paul: Paul and James -- Galatians: The two missions in Antioch and Jerusalem: Galatians 1:17-19, leadership in Jerusalem ; Galatians 2:1-10, the pillars and the leadership of the two missions ; Galatians 2:11-14, James and the dispute at Antioch ; Two missions, many factions -- 1 Corinthians: Rivalry between James, Peter and Paul: 1 Corinthians 9:5-6, the role of wives and work in the two missions ; 1 Corinthians 15:5-8, rival appearance traditions -- 4. James, Peter, Matthew, and Paul: Diversity and conflict in the two missions -- Peter and James as opponents of Paul -- Peter an James and the leadership questions -- Matthew and the gentile mission -- B.H. Streeter and the conflict between the two missions -- Matthew and Antioch -- The law in Matthew: Matthew 5:17-20 ; Matthew and Q: Matthew 11:12-13 ; Matthew 28:19-20 ; Models of leadership and mission.
Part 2: Images of James in the Early church -- 5. Tradition in Eusebius: James the Just, brother of the Lord, first bishop and martyr: Paul on James, according to Eusebius ; The Abgar incident -- an interlude? -- The use of unspecified and specific sources -- The summary statement -- Two quotations from Clement -- Eusebius appeals to Paul to clarify the identity of James -- The martyrdom of James: The summary of Eusebius ; Hegesippus according to Eusebius ; Eusebius's concluding summary of Hegesippus ; First quotation of Josephus ; Josephus and the martyrdom of James ; Final summary on James and reference to the epistle -- Summary statements concerning James as first bishop and martyr -- The death of James and the siege of Jerusalem: The delay of the siege ; After the siege -- The family of Jesus until the reign of Trajan.
Symeon in the time of Trajan -- The traditional list of the bishops of Jerusalem -- The Jerusalem succession and the beginning of heresy -- The throne of James -- 6. The Nag Hammadi library: James successor to Jesus and repository of secret tradition -- The Coptic gospel of Thomas: Appointed by the risen Lord -- The apocryphon of James: James and he secret tradition -- The first apocalypse of James: The brother of the Lord and the chain of succession -- The second apocalypse of James: The revelation discourse of Jesus to the just one -- 7. The apocrypha and later Christian evidence: Bishop of bishops and bulwark of truth -- The gospel of the Hebrews: The brother of Jesus as the first witness -- The pseudo-clementines: Bishop of bishops in the church of the Hebrews: The ascents of James and the martyrdom tradition ; The kerygmata petrou and the epistula Petri on Peter, Paul, and James -- The pseudo-clementines and Jewish Christianity -- The protoevangelium of James: James the son of Joseph -- Prigin: The brothers of Jesus and James in pseudo-Josephus: Commentary on Matthew X. 17 ; Contra celsum 1.47; 2:13 -- The panarion of Epiphanius: The royal and priestly role of the first son of Joseph -- Jerome and Helvidius: James as the cousin or brother of Jesus.
Part 3: James and Jewish Christianity -- 8. Jewish Christianity, the righteous sufferer, and the epistle of James -- Jewish Christianity -- The epistle of James: The teaching of the epistle of James ; The epistle of James and the Jesus tradition ; James and Paul -- Just James -- Robert Eisenman's James the brother of Jesus.
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