Nazarene Jewish Christianity is a comprehensive study of the heirs of the earliest Jerusalem church, their history and doctrines, their relations with both synagogue and the growing Gentile church. The author analyzes all sources, Jewish, Christian, and pagan, which can throw light on the sect and its ultimate mysterious disappearance. He also deals with the Birkat haMinim and historicity of the flight to Pella.
Author(s): Ray A. Pritz
Series: Studia Post-Biblica
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 1988
Language: English
Pages: 153
Nazarene Jewish Christianity: From the End of the New Testament Period Until Its Disappearance in the Fourth Century / Ray A. Pritz......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Matthew 2:23......Page 11
Acts 24:5......Page 14
Pliny's Nazerini......Page 17
Justin Martyr......Page 19
Origen......Page 21
Eusebius......Page 23
3. Epiphanius......Page 29
Panarion 29......Page 30
Panarion 29,7......Page 44
Nasaraioi......Page 45
Chronology......Page 48
Jerome and the Nazarenes......Page 49
Jerome and the Hebrew gospel......Page 51
The Nazarenes in Jerome......Page 53
Nazarene Literature: The Jeremiah Apocryphon......Page 56
Nazarene Literature: The Interpretation of Isaiah......Page 57
On Isaiah 8.14......Page 58
On Isaiah 8:20-21......Page 62
On Isaiah 9:1-4......Page 64
On Isaiah 29:20-21......Page 65
On Isaiah 31:6-9......Page 68
Summary......Page 70
Filaster......Page 71
Augustine......Page 76
Theodoret of Cyrrhus......Page 79
Later Writers......Page 81
6. The Gospel According to the Hebrews......Page 83
The Nazarenes and the Gospel according to the Hebrews......Page 86
Information on the Nazarenes derivable from the Gospel according to the Hebrews......Page 88
7. Jewish Sources......Page 95
Yeshu Ha-nôẕrî......Page 96
Ha-nôẕrîm......Page 98
Birkat ha-mînîm......Page 102
Summary and Conclusions......Page 108
Appendixes......Page 111
I. Epiphanius, Panarion 29, Κατα Ναζωραιων......Page 113
II. Geography......Page 120
III. The Historicity of the Pella Tradition......Page 122
Jerusalem's loss of authority......Page 123
Pella as a safe refuge......Page 124
Getting out of Jerusalem......Page 126
List of Abbreviations......Page 128
Bibliography......Page 130
Indices......Page 137
Scripture References......Page 138
Jewish Sources......Page 140
Christian Sources......Page 142
Modern Authors......Page 147
Subjects......Page 150
