By Ray A. Pritz
Nazarene Jewish Christianity is a finished learn of the heirs of the earliest Jerusalem church, their background and doctrines, their kin with either synagogue and the starting to be Gentile church. the writer analyzes all assets, Jewish, Christian, and pagan, that could throw gentle at the sect and its final mysterious disappearance. He additionally offers with the Birkat haMinim and historicity of the flight to Pella.
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Faust. XIX 4). 38 Pan. 3015,3; anaceph. 30, 3. 79 PATRISTIC EVIDENCE AFTER JEROME that the Nazarenes "have Christian baptism," while not having a direct counterpart in Augustine's known sourees, could have been prompted by Epiphanius' testimonies about other Jewish Christian sects. 39 In sum, there is no obligation to conclude that Augustine had any personal knowledge ofthe Nazarenes, nor even that he has any new material to contribute. His primary, if not sole source of information about a named sect of N azarenes (before his correspondence with Jerome) was Epiphanius.
6 Numerous scholars at the time also wanted to identify the Philosophumena (or, more correctly, Re/utation 0/ All Heresies) with a treatise described in some detail by Photius. 7 Photius gave a rather full description of tbis work, which he calls a syntagma, or compendium. It contained 32 heresies, beginning from the Dositheans and ending with Noetus and the Noetians, and he calls it a ßtßAtÖaptOv, Iibellus, a little book. It was founded on some lectures by Irenaeus (Hippolytus' teacher) and was brief 8 (ä1ttpttt~) in its style.
12 From these facts we may draw two inescapable 6 Hippolytus und Kallistus (1853). 7 Myriobiblon sive Bibliotheca CXXI (PG 103, 40 I f). 8 This is Lightfoot's translation. " The discrepancy does not, however, afTect his argument. 9 Comprising over 200 columns in Migne, who follows Miller in ascribing it to Origen. ;avtEc;, KtÄ. ("We have likewise, on a former occasion, expounded the doctrines of these briefly, not illustrating them with any degree of minuteness, but refuting them in coarse digest ....