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The Life, Miracles and Martyrdom of St. James the Great: Apostle and Martyr of the Christian Church; The Way of St. James Guide for the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela following St. James' footsteps. Apostle James the Brother of St John the Theologian Orthodox icon and synaxarion; History; St. James the Greater, Apostle at the Christian ...
Robert Eisenman [27] and Achille Camerlynck [28] both suggest that the death of James in Acts 12:1–2 is James, son of Zebedee and not James son of Alphaeus. In Christian art, James the Less is depicted holding a fuller's club. [29] One tradition maintains that he was crucified at Ostrakine in Lower Egypt, where he was preaching the Gospel. [30]
The Encyclopædia Britannica relates that "James the Lord's brother was a Christian apostle, according to St. Paul, although not one of the original Twelve Apostles." [1] According to Protestant theologian Philip Schaff, James seems to have taken the place of James the son of Zebedee, after his martyrdom, around 44 AD. [19]
James the Great was the brother of John the Apostle. James the Less has traditionally been commemorated along with St. Philip in the Western Christian calendars. In the Roman Catholic Church their feast day was observed on 1 May until 1955, when it was moved to 11 May to accommodate the Feast of St Joseph the Worker on 1 May.
Eisenman attempts to reconstruct the events surrounding the origins of Christianity, preceding the recorded history of early Christianity.He critically reviews the narrative of the canonical gospels drawing on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Clementine Recognitions and Homilies, the Apostolic Constitutions, Eusebius, the two James Apocalypses from Nag Hammadi, the Western Text of Acts and the ...
The Catholic tradition holds that this James is to be identified with James, son of Alphaeus, and James the Less. [17] Although some argue that he is not one of the Twelve Apostles, but is named an apostle in the wider sense (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:7; 1 Corinthians 9:5); [18] see the note in Galatians 1:1 [broken anchor].
The author is identified as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ" (James 1:1). James (Jacob, Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, romanized: Ya'aqov, Ancient Greek: Ιάκωβος, romanized: Iakobos) was an extremely common name in antiquity, and a number of early Christian figures are named James, including: James the son of Zebedee, James the Less, James the son of Alphaeus, and James ...
James, brother of Jesus (died 62 or 69), also known as James the Just; James the Great (died 44), Apostle, also known as James, son of Zebedee, or Saint James the Greater; James, son of Alphaeus (died c. 62), Apostle, also known as James the Less; James the Less, possibly the same as the son of Alphaeus or the brother of Jesus