Antioch and James the Just

Abstract

Protestant Pauline scholarship has long found in Galatians 2 proof positive of a deep and irreconcilable division between a law-free Gentiles mission based at Antioch and the Jerusalem reactionaries under James the Just, who were very much the villains of the piece. The author aims to shed a little light on the view that James the Just is likely to have taken of the city and the fledgling church at Antioch. This chapter examines how the city and the Jewish community of Antioch might have been viewed by an inhabitant of Jerusalem in the mid-first century. It discusses a number of relatively lightly argued theses on the likely rationale for James' view of Antioch. The chapter takes both Acts and Galatians more or less at face value, acknowledging tensions and contradictions wherever necessary but without resorting either to grand harmonies or to grand polarities and conflict theories.Keywords: Acts; Antioch; Galatians; James the Just; Jerusalem; Jewish community

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