10-21-2014, 07:09 PM
About the earliest Messianic Jewish sources,
This is my first post on this forum, but I thought it might be a good idea to share some of the sources I have come across, even though this is an old thread.
There are a few books that may be helpful, one is from the 1930's by Hugh J. Schonfield, and is called "The History of Jewish Christianity". He does mention that one of the earliest Jewish-Christian Sources we have are the Odes of Solomon, which are written in "Syriac" and have a great deal of agreement with the Peshitta version of Yochanan because of their mutual use of the Term "Miltha."
But another Good source about the first Jewish followers of Yeshua is the work by professors Pines and Flusser on the Abd Al Jabar Text. Which includes several first hand accounts by a Messianic Jewish group in 9th Century Iraq in the city that is today Mosul.
it can be found online here <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://khazarzar.skeptik.net/books/pines02.pdf">http://khazarzar.skeptik.net/books/pines02.pdf</a><!-- m -->
in fact this text maybe the best smoking gun to help support the fact that the Peshitta is Jewish in Origin and is an exemplar of these Jewish communities.
there are some more sources we can find in the Talmud of course, but I thought I would see if anybody has delt with any of these texts before.
This is my first post on this forum, but I thought it might be a good idea to share some of the sources I have come across, even though this is an old thread.
There are a few books that may be helpful, one is from the 1930's by Hugh J. Schonfield, and is called "The History of Jewish Christianity". He does mention that one of the earliest Jewish-Christian Sources we have are the Odes of Solomon, which are written in "Syriac" and have a great deal of agreement with the Peshitta version of Yochanan because of their mutual use of the Term "Miltha."
But another Good source about the first Jewish followers of Yeshua is the work by professors Pines and Flusser on the Abd Al Jabar Text. Which includes several first hand accounts by a Messianic Jewish group in 9th Century Iraq in the city that is today Mosul.
it can be found online here <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://khazarzar.skeptik.net/books/pines02.pdf">http://khazarzar.skeptik.net/books/pines02.pdf</a><!-- m -->
in fact this text maybe the best smoking gun to help support the fact that the Peshitta is Jewish in Origin and is an exemplar of these Jewish communities.
there are some more sources we can find in the Talmud of course, but I thought I would see if anybody has delt with any of these texts before.