Nazarene Jewish Christianity: From the End of the New Testament Period Until Its Disappearance in the Fourth Century - Softcover

Ray Pritz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9652237981 ISBN 13: 9789652237989

Publisher: Magnes Pr, 1992

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

NThis meticulous investigation was submitted, in its earlier garb, as a doctoral dissertation at The Hebrew University, and its author shows the mastery of the philological tools required from young scholars. The topic is well chosen, and the author rightly points out the discrepancy in modern research between the great interest devoted to the Ebionites and the extreme poverty of scholarship on the Nazarenes. His hope that the present book may fill an inadmissible hole in research, and hence permit progress toward the understanding of the Jewish-Christian phenomenon in the early centuries, is amply justified by the results. Here is a full-scale and trustworthy study which will be used by scholars in the field. The texts studied are reproduced and translated, and their analysis is careful and honest. --Gedaliahu G Stroumsa, The Jewish Quarterly Review, LXXXII, Nos 3-4, (January-April, 1992) 573-574

About this edition

• Publisher: Magnes Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 9652237981
• ISBN 13: 9789652237989
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 160