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Annunciation to Joachim and Anna, fresco by Gaudenzio Ferrari, 1544–45 (detail). The Gospel of James (or the Protoevangelium of James) [Note 1] is a second-century infancy gospel telling of the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary, her upbringing and marriage to Joseph, the journey of the couple to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and events immediately following.
Luke – a doctor who wrote what is now the book of Luke to Theophilus. Also known to have written the book of Acts (or Acts of the Apostles) and to have been a close friend of Paul of Tarsus; John – a disciple of Jesus and the youngest of his Twelve Apostles
James Tissot, Saint Luke, Brooklyn Museum. Epiphanius states that Luke was one of the Seventy Apostles (Panarion 51.11), and John Chrysostom indicates at one point that the "brother" that Paul mentions in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians 8:18 [24] is either Luke or Barnabas (Homily 18 on Second Corinthians on 2 Corinthians 8:18).
The Gospel of James (or "Infancy Gospel of James"), a work of the 2nd century, also presents itself as written by James [74] – so that his authorship would lend authority. In a 4th-century letter pseudographically ascribed to the 1st century Clement of Rome , [ 75 ] James was called the "bishop of bishops, who rules Jerusalem, the Holy Church ...
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 ...
Paul's theology of the gospel accelerated the separation of the messianic sect of Christians from Judaism, a development contrary to Paul's own intent. He wrote that faith in Christ was alone decisive in salvation for Jews and Gentiles alike, making the schism between the followers of Christ and mainstream Jews inevitable and permanent.
The Visio Pauli and the Gnostic Apocalypse of Paul. Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha 9. Leuven: Peeters. Gardiner, Eileen (1989). Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante. New York: Italica Press. pp. 13– 46. ISBN 9780934977142. An English translation of the Latin text based on the M. R. James version, but removing the archaic phrasings.
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews (1965) The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians (1965) The Gospel of Grace As Revealed to the Apostle Paul (1965) What Think Ye of Christ?: And other sermons (1965) The Gospel According to John, Volume 2 (1966) The Epistles of John (1966) Daniel: verse by verse study (1966) Heaven; James ...