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Hegesippus, quoted in Eusebius, History of the Church 2.23.18.

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 20.9.1.

Jerome, Famous Men, in Patrologia Latina 23.613, 23.615.

See Ben Witherington, Conflict and Community and Corinth (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995), pp. 186–232.

See, for example, Josephus, Antiquities 18.328–329.

See the fine essay by Richard Bauckham, “For What Offense Was James Put to Death?” in James the Just and Christian Origins, ed. Bruce Chilton and Craig A. Evans (Leiden: Brill, 1999), pp. 199–231.

See the discussion in the appendix to Ben Witherington, The Paul Quest (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1998).

See John Painter, Just James: The Brother of James in History and Tradition (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999), pp. 43–44. Eusebius suggested it was the death of the first martyr, Stephen, that allowed James to take charge.

Phyllis A. Bird, “‘Male and Female He Created Them’: Gen 1:27b in the Context of the Priestly Account of Creation,” Harvard Theological Review 74:2 (1981), pp. 129–159 (quotation from p. 156).