The Secret Book of James (NHC I,2) is the second text in NHC I, likely written in the late 2nd century CE and preserved in a single 4th-century CE manuscript. The text presents itself as an epistle from James to a recipient whose name is lost who had requested that James narrate the revelation given to him and Peter before Jesus’ ascent to heaven.  The Secret Book of James is an understudied but significant early Christian text that is valuable for scholarship on ea…