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I strongly doubt the accuracy of their statement about Melito of Sardis. I haven't looked into the Lüdemann reference yet, but will have a look over the weekend. Thank-you very much for your help. My nose twitched at little when I read that, but it's such a fascinating conjecture, I decided to put ...

Kok tried to make the following points in the chapter : The Patristic writers depict the “Ebionites” (i.e. “poor ones”) and Nazoraeans as distinct sects, but I think that the reality is that these titles were probably used by a diverse variety of Jewish followers. The “poor” could have been a popul...

The Ebionites were Torah/Law Observant But NOT Torah Observant in the Ritualistic Manner of the Jews. On the central theme of the alleged beliefs ascribed to the Ebionites, the early church writer Hippolytus tells us: “They live conformably to the customs of the Jews, alleging that they are justifi...

Hope of Israel Ministries (Ecclesia of YEHOVAH) : The first Christians were the Hebrew Judeans who believed that Yeshua was the Israelite Messiah. They believed in one God and taught that Yeshua was the Messiah and was the true “prophet” mentioned in Deuteronomy 18:15. They rejected the Virgin Birt...

There are 2 chapters from the Edward Gibbon: The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire that talk of the Ebionites: The Ebionites When the name and honours of the church of Jerusalem had been restored to Mount Sion, the crimes of heresy and schism were imputed to the obscure remnant of the Nazarenes w...

John 9:38. The blind man healed 'then worshipped him' (Jesus) If you don't think this worship is original then the Aramaic provides a fix (with the proviso Only in Estrangelo not Hebrew script) SGD and SED when written are almost identical in appearance ... Admittedly, it's a bit of a long shot unl...

From: Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East : The Church of the East is ... an Apostolic church, established by the apostles St Thomas, St Thaddeus, and St Bartholomew. St Peter, the chief of the Apostles added his blessing to the Church of the East at the time of his visit to the see ...

All of the "Church Fathers", both East and West, testified to the Semitic origin of at least the Book of Matthew, as the following quotes demonstrate: So all these early "church fathers" claim to have seen Christian material "written in Hebrew" and/or "written in ...

When I can find a stretch of spare time I'll maybe try to do that. It requires breaking down everything into paragraphs, both the English translations and the scholarly commentary, and comparing & contrasting them for commonalities that can be interpreted as pointing to factual events, however ...

We feel that we've made the case for Peshitta Primacy: Major KJV Tampering Tampering in both Tyndale and KJV (Acts 16:16 ) Mid-sized TR Tampering but hugely famous: Joahannine Comma KJV Howler? the bowels of the saints (Philemon 1:7 [KJV]) KJV Howler? mine own bowels: (Philemon 1:12 [KJV]) KJV Howle...