(1) How does the appeal to Abraham work?
(2) What type of argument is this and if there is any logic to this argument, how does it proceed?
(3) How does this appeal if there is one fit into the immediate context or even into the large context of the book of James.
(4) Why is James making this argument anyway could the people the letter is written to cause this or prompt this argument.
(5) How does this appeal to Abraham compare to Paul's appeals to the patriarch in Romans 4: and Gal 3-4? Do they have any commonalities,or differences?
(6) Is the argument of James one that Paul would have approve why or why not?