Recovering Jewish-Christian Sects and Gospels

by Petri Luomanen

The mystery of lost, apocryphal Jewish-Christian gospels has intrigued scholars for centuries. Scholars have also debated whether the Ebionites with their low Christology or the more "orthodox" Nazarenes are the genuine successors of the early Jerusalem church. This book provides a fresh assessment of the patristic sources and the scholarly theories on the number and contents of Jewish-Christian gospels. A new approach, the study of indicators of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004209719
• ISBN13: 9789004209718
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 312 Pages