By Alicia J. Batten
Now on hand from SBL Press
Employing social description, social clinical versions, and rhetorical research, Alicia J. Batten argues that the letter of James is conversant with the subject of friendship inside of Greek and Roman literature, in addition to inside a number of texts of early Christianity. She illustrates how James drew upon a number of the language and ideas regarding friendship with an fascinating density to suggest resistance to wealth, avoidance of wealthy consumers, and reliance upon God.
Features:
- Use of friendship, benefaction, and patronage as lenses by which James and comparable texts should be viewed
- A robust case for a way the letter appels to the language and concepts of friendship with reference to God's relationships with humans
- Exploration of the connection among the e-book of James and the lessons of Jesus
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Example text
Genuine friendship for B e n Sira d o e s r e q u i r e , however, m o r a l r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s . H e states t h a t firm f r i e n d s h i p w i l l b e shared between t w o p e o p l e w h o b o t h fear t h e L o r d ( 6 : 1 7 ) . H e g i v e s i n s t r u c t i o n s n o t o n l y a b o u t l o y a l t y t o friends b u t o n h o w o n e s h o u l d s p e a k t o a f r i e n d . O n e s h o u l d s t r a i g h t f o r w a r d l y q u e s t i o n a f r i e n d if t h e r e is r e a s o n to t h i n k t h a t h e h a d d o n e s o m e t h i n g w r o n g , o r said s o m e t h i n g i n j u r i o u s .
M a l h e r b e e x a n d friendship in Philippians a n d a r g u e s t h a t P a u l ' s d e s c r i p t i o n o f his o w n self-sufficiency in Phil 4 : 1 1 recalls G r e e k p h i l o s o p h i c a l n o t i o n s t h a t t r u e f r i e n d s h i p d o e s n o t emerge from need but from virtue. 1 4 3 T h e m o s t s t r i k i n g r e f e r e n c e t o f r i e n d s h i p i n t h e G o s p e l o f J o h n is t h e s t a t e m e n t i n 1 5 : 1 3 t h a t t h e r e is n o g r e a t e r l o v e t h a n t o lay d o w n o n e ' s life f o r o n e ' s cpfkoq.
147 R o b e r t Joly, Le Vocabulaire chretien de Vamour est-il original? OcXecv et aya7iav dans le grec antique (Brussels: Presses Universitaires, 1968) has studied t h e history o f the w o r d 9cXew a n d found that it declines in usage in n o n - C h r i s t i a n literature before the rise of t h e church. Konstan ("Problems," 102 n. 39) notes, h o w e v e r , that despite this decline, s o m e early Christian writers "perceived a tension b e t w e e n the abstract n o u n s agape and philia in ways foreign t o pagan texts, and that these same writers t e n d e d to avoid the t e r m philos (or amicus) in contexts relating to Christian love.