About Jesus!

[theVOID]

Maybe to you it wasn't settled, but the accepted view is that James was known as the brother of Jesus. He was mentioned in the writings of Paul and he wrote the epistle credited to him. If you have evidence to disprove this I would like to hear it.

Are you saying there was no one known as "James, the brother of Jesus?"

Did I ever claim that nobody was known as "James, the brother of Jesus"? No.

As for what I remember there were at least 3 other James' that the authorship has been attributed to, such as the Apostle James and James the Great.

Another point, why did James in his epistle never claim himself to be the brother of Jesus? Paul made that assertion in Galatians and not James himself. James referred to himself as (paraphrased) "Servant of the Lord God and Jesus" but never as the brother of Jesus. It appears as though that claim came later on.

Also, if this was James the brother of Jesus who wrote the epistle then how do you explain the absolute lack of knowledge of Jesus' life story? Does James even mention Mary and Joseph?

Also isn't the source document believed to be vernacular Greek and therefore unlikely to have been written by an Aramaic Jew?

I don't know a whole lot about the Epistle of James, so please do correct any mistakes i've made.