Excerpt from James: The Lord's Brother This book is an attempt to treat the life of James the Lord's brother with the fulness and thoroughness which its importance demands, and thus to make a contribution to the settlement of some of the most difficult problems belonging to the history of the primitive Church. I do t kw any work which covers the same ground. It will be seen that I am convinced of the genuineness of the Epistle of James, and of the trustworthiness of the tices concerning him which occur in the Acts, and that I regard these as substantially the only true sources for his opinions and career. In many of the ablest works on the apostolic age, whether in our own or in other languages, the James delineated is the James of legend and romance rather than the James of history; and hence the James drawn in these pages, who is neither a Nazirite r an ascetic, will wear an unfamiliar aspect to many. But I can form conception of a James who is at once the James of the Epistle and the Acts and the James of Hegesippus. The chapter on the Congress at Jerusalem is that which has cost me most pains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
