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Areas Of Involvement: Christianity. Ebionite, member of an early ascetic sect of Jewish Christians. The Ebionites were one of several such sects that originated in and around Palestine in the first centuries ad and included the Nazarenes and Elkasites.
May 1, 1994 · Founder. Possibly Ebion of Pella. Principal errors. Insistence that all Christians or at least all Jewish Christians must be circumcised and keep the Mosaic Law; belief that Jesus was not God but an angel or, more commonly, a mere man, often with a denial of the Virgin Birth; rejection of the epistles of Paul; claim that Paul was a false ...
EBIONISM, EBIONITES (GOSPEL OF THE) ē’ bĭ ə nĭsm, ē’ bĭ ə nīts ( אֶבְיﯴנִ֑ים, ̓Εβιωναῖοι or ̓Εβιωναῖται, from the term אֶבְיﯴן, H36, meaning poor, i.e., poor men ). A term and an apocryphal gospel used to describe certain Judaeo-Christian groups in the early centuries of Christianity.
The Gospel of the Ebionites is one of several Jewish–Christian gospels, along with the Gospel of the Hebrews and the Gospel of the Nazarenes; all survive only as fragments in quotations of the early Church Fathers.
The Ebionites (from Hebrew; אביונים, Ebyonim, "the poor ones") were an early sect of Jewish followers of Jesus that flourished from the first to the fifth century C.E. in and around the Land of Israel. [1] .
In short, Ebionism was a thing of individuals, whose opinion ran through the whole gamut of faith, from the Nazareans, who differed from the orthodox simply in remaining Jews, to those whose Judaism alone prevented them from becoming followers of Theodotus of Byzantium, and who therefore sank back into pure Judaism.
Oct 11, 2018 · Subscribed. 12. 446 views 5 years ago. Ebionism was an early Christian heresy that denied the divinity of Jesus, insisted on keeping the entire Mosaic law, and expected an earthly Messianic ...
