James

The great Samuel Johnson once said about John Milton’s Paradise Lost that although he knew many people who had “read it,” he knew very few who had read it “through.” That is true of many literary classics. Books like Plato’s Republic, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Melville’s Moby Dick, and others are recognized as outstanding works. But there are millions of people who have never read them and have no intention of reading them. The same is true of much biblical literature. In fact, even Christians neglect much of it. When we talk about the New Testament one book that fits this category is James.