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The Righteous Gentile Interjects (James 2:18-19 and Romans 2:14-15)

Heath, Jane

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Jas 2:18-19 is at the heart of James’ famous (or, to some, infamous) argument about faith and works, but it defies definitive interpretation due to combined difficulties in punctuation and in tracing the literary continuity in James’ argument. This essay approaches the problematic passage in the context of James’ literary intertextuality with Paul. It suggests that the enigmatic objector in James is one of Paul’s righteous gentiles (Rom 2:14-15), who lumps James and his Jewish Christian ‘brothers’ together in charging them with hypocrisy (cf. Rom 2:17-23). James artfully gives this gentile Christian voice to strengthen his own argument, for an audience already alerted to his rich intertextuality with Paul.

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Heath, J. (2013). The Righteous Gentile Interjects (James 2:18-19 and Romans 2:14-15). Novum Testamentum: An International Quarterly for New Testament and Related Studies, 55(3), 272-295. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341425

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2013
Deposit Date Mar 19, 2014
Publicly Available Date Apr 24, 2014
Journal Novum Testamentum
Print ISSN 0048-1009
Electronic ISSN 1568-5365
Publisher Brill Academic Publishers
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 55
Issue 3
Pages 272-295
DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341425
Keywords James, Romans, Paul, Intertextuality, Righteous gentiles, Allusion, Faith and works.

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