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The Apocryphon of James, [ 1] also called the Secret Book of James[ 2][ 3] or the Apocryphal Epistle of James, [ 4][ 5] is a Gnostic epistle. [ 1][ 4] It is the second tractate in Codex I of the Nag Hammadi library. [ 4][ 5] The tractate is a Coptic translation of a Greek original, [ 4] probably written in Egypt, [ 1][ 4] with estimates of the ...
The First Apocalypse of James is a Gnostic apocalyptic writing. [1] Its initially rediscovery was a Coptic translation [2] as the third tractate of Codex V in the Nag Hammadi library. [1] [3] Additional copies were later found in Coptic as part of the Codex Tchacos [4] [5] and in Greek among the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.
Daemonologie—in full Dæmonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mightie Prince, James &c.—was first published in 1597 [1] by King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) as a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic.
Mark the Evangelist is the earliest known source in the Bible to mention "James, son of Alphaeus" as one of the twelve Apostles. Mark the Evangelist mentions a "James, son of Alphaeus" only once and this is in his list of the 12 Apostles ( Mark 3, ( Mark 3:16–19 )). At the beginning of Jesus ' ministry he first calls Peter and his brother ...
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, 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 son of Alphaeus, and James the brother of Jesus ...
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. [ 2][ 3] It is the earliest surviving assertion of the ...
From the age of thirteen until his death, the life of King James VI of Scotland and I of England (1566–1625) was characterised by close relationships with a series of male favourites . The influence James' favourites had on politics, and the resentment at the wealth they acquired, became major political issues during his reign.
Basilikon Doron (Βασιλικὸν Δῶρον) means "royal gift" in Ancient Greek and was written in the form of a private letter to James's eldest son, Henry, Duke of Rothesay (1594–1612). After Henry's death, James gave it to his second son, Charles, born 1600, later King Charles I. Seven copies were printed in Edinburgh in 1599, and it ...