Winter Convocation: 1973-1974, Biblical Wisdom and Contemporary Education

1974/01/09. Looks to biblical books of wisdom for an answer to the question, What is the meaning of knowledge? Associate Professor of OT Studies, Regent College

Sincerely James: Reconsidering Frederick Francis’s Proposed Health Wish Formula

This article interacts with Frederick Francis’s well-known suggestion that Jas 5 contains a health wish formula. Based on more recent findings of epistolography, this article argues that the references to healing in Jas 5 contrast sharply with the first-century CE health wish formula(s). In addition to current research on Hellenistic epistolography, this article offers three further pieces of evidence which suggest that the letter of James does not conclude with a health wish formula, but rather with a promise of restoration from spiritual sickness