History of the Nazarenes

[Andrew Gabriel Roth]

Shlama all--

I found something interesting again on Internet Archive. It is a history of the Nazarenes including an accounting of the movement as it was in the early 20th century, more than 40 years before the rise of what most think of as "Messianic Judaism" in the mid 1960's in NYC.

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Now the author, Hugh Schonfield, I do have some issues with respect to his views on Hebrew Matthew and with certain beliefs he took on late in life. But this book is written from a very interesting perspective as he claims that he can not only trace early Nazarenes but see some of them get absorbed by Rome and be counted as early Church Fathers later. It's not something you hear about often but from what I have seen he is doing a good job. I particularly found his Talmud section on teh Nazarenes very well done. See for yourself though. I have looked at this briefly but it seems rather good.

Enjoy!