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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...

Epiphanius provides an interesting area for speculation, in writing about the Nazarenes, saying that before the Christians were called Christians they were, for a short time, also called Iessaioi.10 He suggests at first—without any explanation—that the name came from Jesse, the father of David. Then he wavers, and concedes that it might have come from the name of Jesus, giving the impression that he has only the fact of the early name before him without anything but his own conjectures to explain
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