"Tamez first listens carefully to James and the many excellent contem-porary studies of his work. Then in an amazing feat she soars far beyond her predecessors to give us the best modern commentary on the book. Scholars, preachers, and lay Bible teachers will be grateful for her unique grasp of James's message, her keen pastoral insights, and the beauty and and power of of her writing.
-Thomas Hanks, author of God So Loved the Third World

"When the Letter of James was read from the pulpit in a wealthy congregation in Pinochet's Chile, half the congregation got up and left. Elsa has recovered this power of 'the scandalous message of James.""
-José Míguez Bonino, author of Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation
"Neither riches nor poverty are to be made harmless by spiritualizing them, as generations of middle-class interpreters have been inclined to do. Tamez overcomes the faith/works dichotomy that is the heritage left by Luther's comment regarding this 'right strawy epistle.'"
-Theodore Runyon, Candler School of Theology