Reading James with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780567031259)

Robert L. Webb lectures in the Religious Studies Department of McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He is the executive editor of the "Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus" (Sage) and of the monograph series "Library of Historical Jesus Studies" (a subset of LNTS, T&T Clark). He is the author of "John the Baptizer and Prophet: A Socio-Historical Study" (Sheffield Academic Press, 1991) and more recently the co-editor with Kathleen Corley of "Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels, and the Claims of History" (Continuum, 2004) and with John Kloppenborg of "Reading James with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James" (T&T Clark, 2007). John S. Kloppenborg is Professor of Religion at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is well-known for his ground-breaking work on the Sayings Gospel Q. His most recent publication is "Excavating Q: The History and Setting of the Sayings Gospel." He is currently writing a commentary on James for the Hermeneia series.