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- noun A member of the Ebionites, an early Jewish Christian sect that lived in and around
Judea and Palestine from the 1st to the 4th century.
Etymologies
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This is the description used in an "Ebionite" document called the Pseudoclementine Recognitions to picture the "headlong fall" James takes down the Temple steps when the "enemy" Paul physically attacks him leaving him for dead; and, as also noted, "he burst open and his bowels gushed out" (thus).
Robert Eisenman: Redemonizing Judas: Gospel Fiction or Gospel Truth? 2009
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( "Ebionite") Christology -- but the Logos as a person stands behind it; -- the conception of two Logoi, a personal and an impersonal; the
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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To Origen, however, the errors are already Gnostic Docetism on the one hand, and the "Ebionite" view on the other. [
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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Le messie et son prophète : Aux origines de l'Islam Among the findings of these scholars is the strong influence of Ebionite and Nazorean Christians on the earliest Muslims.
Bishop Pierre Whalon: Jaw-Jaw Or War-War? Bishop Pierre Whalon 2011
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Le messie et son prophète : Aux origines de l'Islam Among the findings of these scholars is the strong influence of Ebionite and Nazorean Christians on the earliest Muslims.
Bishop Pierre Whalon: Jaw-Jaw Or War-War? Bishop Pierre Whalon 2011
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I was particularly entertained by his argument that Josephus became an Ebionite Christian and wrote the fragment of a homily on Hades.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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It doesn't seem likely that a cult based on a mythic super being would devolve into Ebionite Christianity.
The Problem With Publishing On The Historical Jesus James F. McGrath 2010
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I was particularly entertained by his argument that Josephus became an Ebionite Christian and wrote the fragment of a homily on Hades.
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In the Panarion, his epic treatise against heresy, Epiphanius gives us many details about the Ebionite lifestyle.
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These documents (known to scholars as the "pseudo-Clementines") are Ebionite stories about the early Christians.
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