Understanding Dirac Spinor Question in QED

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In Qed they replace the current vector J^{\alpha} by ie\overline{\Psi}\gamma^{\alpha}\Psi. I don't understand how this is done. I understand that
J^{A\dot{A}}=J^{\alpha}{\sigma^{A\dot{A}}_\alpha} but if J^{A\dot{A}} is a rank two matrix then J^{A\dot{A}}=\psi^{A}\psi^{*\dot{A}}+\phi^{A}\phi^{*\dot{A}}. So shouldn't J^{\alpha} be written as something like
ie(\bar{\Psi}\gamma^{\alpha}\Psi +\bar{\Phi}\gamma^{\alpha}\Phi)?
 
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The two 2-component Weyl spinors (and their complex conjugates) need to be combined into a single Dirac spinor (and its Dirac conjugate). And the Dirac matrices are constructed as an off-block-diagonal combination of the Pauli matrices - the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_matrices#Weyl_basis".

This is explained in almost any textbook on supersymmetry (where the 2-component formalism is very common) or, e.g., in http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/6157/list-of-freely-available-physics-books/6167#6167"
 
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