Talk:James the Brother of Jesus (book)

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A fact from James the Brother of Jesus (book) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 10 October 2007.

I included the full subtitle in the article title because James the Brother of Jesus is already taken. Maybe James the Brother of Jesus (book) would be better. dab (𒁳) 12:53, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

It would definitely be better.--SidiLemine 09:41, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some comments

A central point Eisenman makes in the book is that the Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism that survive today are the Roman-approved versions. Other threads of Judaism and Jewish-Christianity were suppressed because of their apocalyptic and revolutionary tendencies. Although many of Eisenman's hypotheses have been overturned by physical evidence, this conjecture remains intact.

Another point that Eisenman makes repeatedly is that the Acts of the Apostles is a tenditious document, rewritten as a Roman-friendly apologetic. This has become the mainstream scholarly opinion, as evidenced by some recent discussions on academic blogs.

Eisenman explicitly identifies James the Just as the Teacher of Righteousness. This has been discredited by physical evidence (carbon-14 and paleographic dating of the DSS).

Also, Simon Peter is not the third pillar (as Paul says in Galatians) but Simeon of Jerusalem, who may be the same person as Simon the Zealot. I will have to check this out to be sure. Ovadyah (talk) 23:33, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Much of the content of this article was lifted from an online article by the Institute of Higher Critical Studies Robert Eisenman's JAMES THE BROTHER OF JESUS: A Higher-Critical Evaluationby Robert M. Price. Why wasn't it referenced? Ovadyah (talk) 23:12, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

I see it's in the external links as a review. Ovadyah (talk) 23:16, 22 December 2007 (UTC)