IUBio

brain sizes: Einstein's and women's

Zayton zayton at bellsouth.net
Sun Sep 1 16:27:10 EST 2002


"John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote in message
news:Hrrc9.38036$Ic7.2576188 at news2.west.cox.net...

THE "DIASPORA"
 Notice how James, the Lord's half-brother, addressed his epistle around
A.D. 60: "James, a servant of God and of... Jesus Christ, to the TWELVE
TRIBES [not just the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin] which are scattered
abroad [Gk. diaspora, "dispersed"]" (1:1). James did not address his epistle
to just the Jews. Rather, he addressed his inspired letter to ALL the
Israelites-"to the TWELVE TRIBES in the Dispersion"(same verse, NRSV and
Moffatt).
--
John, the letter of James is a part of the New Testament. The people to whom
he is writing are not literally Jews and Israelites, nor are they literally
divided into twelve tribes; they are the Christian Church of his day, still
drawing part of their numbers from the Jesush faith, but invcreasingly,
under Paul's leadership, beginning to become a gentile phenomonon. It is
only in a spiritual sense that they are "a new Israel" " Synagogue of the
true Jews"

Incidentally; you now seem to be saying that James the brother of Jesus was
not aware of the distinction between "Israelites" and "Jews". He's
"mistaken" and you're "righr?!!!
 Oh, My!

Joe






More information about the Neur-sci mailing list

Send comments to us at biosci-help [At] net.bio.net