Recovering Jewish-Christian Sects and Gospels (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae)

chapterone Although the volume as a whole creates a new overall picture of the early Jewish Christians and their gospels, it is ...

introduction  Ruprecht, –. Chapter . makes use of a section in “Passion and Resurrection Traditions in Early Jewish-Chr ...

chapterone .. How to Define Jewish Christianity: Indicators of Jewish-Christian Profiles The problematic nature of the term “ ...

introduction  of this approach is to list and analyze the “Jewish” and “Christian” com- ponents of a particular text or a commu ...

 chapter one revised categories which are necessary in changing social situations. However, these categorizations cannot be ca ...

introduction  . Are characteristically Jewish practices such as (Jewish) circumcision, the Sabbath and purity laws observed? ...

 chapter one complemented with a once-and-for-all rite that marks a person’s transi- tion into a Christian community.^28 InPse ...

introduction  Overall, the study of indicators of Jewish-Christian profiles is an ana- lytical approach where the “profile,” t ...

 chapter one The study of indicators of Jewish Christianity also helps to deal with the Jewish-Christian gospel fragments in a ...

introduction  phrases or a case of a more profound reediting which seeks to harmonize entire stories with each other. Another ...

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chapter two PATRISTIC TESTIMONIES RECONSIDERED Early Christian heresiologists painted stereotyped pictures of the Ebion- ites an ...

 chapter two fathers were contemporaries and knew each other very well. Further- more, they both lived for a long time in Pale ...

patristic testimonies reconsidered  later sources and where Judaism had more influence on Christianity in general. All the key ...

 chapter two as the original reading derived from Irenaeus. Thus, Irenaeus’ Greek Against Heresiesoriginally stated that the E ...

patristic testimonies reconsidered  Overall, we can only say that the Ebionites’ Christology must have been “something like” t ...

 chapter two of the world only, not receiving God as to have union with Him.. .” (Irenaeus,Haer. ..; trans. Klijn & Rei ...

patristic testimonies reconsidered  The assumption that the Ebionites formed separate factions or com- munities—within Judaism ...

 chapter two see also Painter,  –) which fits well with the Ebionites’ reported—and ridiculed—interest in Jerusalem “a ...

patristic testimonies reconsidered  Ambrosius, a wealthy Alexandrian whom Origen had converted from Gnosticism, became his pat ...