The Epistle of James is a book of the New Testament of the Bible. It is traditionally attributed to James, a leader of the early Christian church. The epistle is addressed to "the twelve tribes scattered abroad," and is written in the form of a letter of instruction and encouragement
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The Epistle of James is a general epistle and one of the 21 epistles in the New Testament. It was written originally in Koine Greek. The epistle aims to reach a wide Jewish audience. It survives in manuscripts from the 3rd century onward and is dated between the mid-1st and mid-2nd century AD.