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JAMES, ASCENTS OF

A late-2nd-century Jewish-Christian book described by Epiphanius (Adv. haer. 30.16.6-9) and no longer extant in its original form. The book exalts James the brother of Jesus as the leader of the earliest Church and denigrates Paul as “the enemy” who prevents the conversion of the entire Jewish people. It advocates observance of Mosaic law and baptism in the name of Jesus to replace sacrifices. Originally written in Greek, it probably stems from the Transjordan and may be the main source of the 4th-century Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions 1.33-71, which retells from a Jewish-Christian perspective the story of Israel from Abraham through Jesus and the early Jerusalem church and features a prophet-like-Moses, preexistence Christology.

Bibliography. F. S. Jones, An Ancient Jewish Christian Source on the History of Christianity: Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions 1.27-71. Texts and Translations 37. Christian Apocrypha 2 (Atlanta, 1995); R. E. Van Voorst, The Ascents of James. SBLDS 112 (Atlanta, 1989).

Robert E. Van Voorst

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JAMES, ASCENTS OF

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)