The Lost Religion of Jesus, A Collection of Resources

 

The Lost Religion of Jesus, A Collection of Resources 

Christians have inherited a rather anachronistic interpretation of Christianity based on viewing the tradition solely through the "lens" of Paul. It is said or believed by some that Paul became a convert maybe between 34 and 36 A.D., roughly 4 to 7 years after the crucifixion of Jesus. The full canonical corpus of Paul's letters seems to burst upon the scene sometime well into the Second Century A.D., but certain letters are assigned by some dates of composition in the mid 50's and 60's of the First Century. It should be obvious that the Jesus movement doesn't begin with Paul. Paul arrives after the time of Jesus and the establishment of his spiritual successors, the first apostles, and that Jesus along with his disciples never had a "Pauline theology". This begs the question, what is salvation, the spiritual practice, and ethical code to be followed according to Jesus and his actual disciples? This original Jesus movement, sometimes called the Hebrew Christians, Ebionites, Nazoraeans, and by other terms, is the 'Christianity Before Paul'. Have always been quite curious about this Jesus Movement so marginalized in the canonical New Testament and seemingly edited out of the timeline.

Reconstructing an Ebionite or Nazorean Collection of Scriptures; Also What We Can Learn About Their History

Reconstructed Q Gospel found in, The Complete Gospels, by Robert J. Miller: 

https://archive.org/details/complete-gospels-ed.-robert-j.-miller/page/253/mode/2up

The Q Thomas Reader - The best and most readable one-volume introduction available to the Sayings Gospel Q and the Gospel of Thomas-the very earliest collections of the sayings and parables of Jesus: 

https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Reader-English-Coptic/dp/0944344119

https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780944344118

Gospel of the Ebionites: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelebionites-panarion.html

Gospel of the Hebrews:  

        https://othergospels.com/hebrews

Gospel of the Hebrews: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelhebrews-throck.html

Gospel of the Hebrews: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/gospelhebrews.html

The Gospel of the Nazoreans: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/nazoreans-ogg.html

The Gospel of the Nazoreans: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelnazoreans.html

Surviving Quotes from the Jewish-Christian Gospels: Gospel of the Ebionites, Gospel of the Hebrews, and Gospel of the Nazoraeans: https://web.archive.org/web/20210223222109/http://www.textexcavation.com/jewishgospels.html

Hebrew Gospel of Matthew (Shem Tov’s Hebrew Matthew), George Howard: 

https://archive.org/details/Hebrew.Gospel.of.MatthewEvenBohanIbn.ShaprutHoward.1987/mode/1up

Another Copy:

https://archive.org/details/gospelofmatthewa0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up

Early Christian Psalms: The Book of the Odes (a.k.a. The Odes of "Solomon"): 

https://othergospels.com/odes

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/odes.html

The Didache [earliest sections: 1, 2, and 3]: 

https://othergospels.com/didache

Letter of James: 

https://othergospels.com/bible/james

Letter of Jude: 

https://othergospels.com/bible/jude

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Vast Treasure-Trove of the Clementine Literature

Epistle (Letter) of Peter to James:

https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Homilies/Epistle-Peter-to-James.htm

Epistle (Letter) of Clement to James:

https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Homilies/Epistle-Clement-to-James.htm

Also See: 

https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/080800.htm

Kerygmata Petrou (Preachings of Peter Reconstructed):

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/kerygmatapetrou.html

The Ascents of James: History and Theology of a Jewish-Christian Community, by Robert E. Van Voorst:  

https://archive.org/details/ascentsofjameshi0000vanv/mode/2up

The Clementine Homilies and The Clementine Recognitions (Ebionite Book of Acts)

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Recognitions of Clement, from the Greek and Latin Manuscripts: 

https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Recognitions/Recognitions-TOC.htm

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Clementine Homilies, from the Greek and Latin Manuscripts:

https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Homilies/Homilies-TOC.htm

The Clementine Homilies (English translation) Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol. XVII, T & T Clark, 1852: 

https://archive.org/details/clementinehomil00donagoog/page/n8/mode/2up?view=theater

History

I do agree with the scholar Robert Eisenman that finding the historic James the Just (brother and spiritual successor of Jesus) is the most logical way to locate a historic Jesus. 

The Research of Robert Eisenman

Robert Eisenman @ Amazon: “James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls”; also, “Dead Sea Scrolls & The First Christians”; and, “James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher”: 

https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Eisenman/e/B000APV2U2

James The Brother Of Jesus And The Dead Sea Scrolls, by Robert Eisenman: 

https://archive.org/details/JamesTheBrotherOfJesusAndTheDeadSeaScrollsI/page/n14/mode/1up

The Research of Keith Akers

I highly recommend two books by Keith Akers on the original Jesus Movement (Christianity-Before-Paul), the Ebionites: "Disciples": 

https://www.amazon.com/Disciples-Jewish-Christianity-Shaped-Shattered-ebook/dp/B00J48GAJE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=keith+akers&qid=1586786123&sr=8-1

And by Keith Akers..."The Lost Religion of Jesus": 

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Religion-Jesus-Christianity-Non-Violence-ebook/dp/B003KTNBMM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1586786168&refinements=p_27%3AKeith+Akers&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=Keith+Akers

Read for free online, The Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity, by Keith Akers: 

https://archive.org/details/lostreligionofje0000aker/mode/2up

The Research of James Tabor

Forgotten Christians: Who Were The Ebionites?

https://youtu.be/dBSuapNMQXU?si=6UnXILusW8w2rM6K

How James [Yaaqov] Beloved Brother of Jesus Was Written out of Early Christianity: 

https://youtu.be/2n5Qg_ekQ_E?si=AQz_H68TWVYpj7N8

The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity, by James D. Tabor: 

https://archive.org/details/the-jesus-dynasty-james-d.-tabor_202301/mode/2up

The Fading of the Jesus Family--Phase One: 

https://youtu.be/FquOk6wpPr8?si=Cci8eP2bMMlUPbDj

The Fading of the Jesus Family: Phase Two:   https://youtu.be/FU8gF8VPH2Q?si=qXaeRYobgV5kIDiQ

Reclaiming Primitive Christianity Part 2: Exploring the Historical Jesus with Dr. James Tabor:  

https://youtu.be/WJNACLcWuLE?si=v3zURHTnrm7Dbfii

Were the Ebionites Heretics? Or Our Best Witness to the Jesus Movement? 

https://youtu.be/HLQ97erL1gc?si=eDWHzX0gQjIVVjKf

The Research of John Davidson 

The Gospel of Jesus: In Search of His Original Teachings, by John Davidson: 

https://archive.org/details/gospelofjesusins0000davi/mode/2up

The Research of Gerard P. Luttikhuizen

The Revelation of Elchasai, a scholarly book by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, exploring the Elkesaites, a Jewish-Christian sect originating in the Transjordan, their connections to the Ebionites, Nazarenes, Gnosticism (Sethians, Mandaeans, Manichaeans and the Prophet Mani);

The Research of Dr. Samuel Zinner

Jewish-Christian Influences in Nascent Islam:  https://vimeo.com/182671329 

Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians, By James Bean (Veg Passages, Expanded, Updated): 

@ Medium: 

https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/evidence-that-jesus-and-the-original-aramaic-christians-were-vegetarians-b8784ac42506

@ Blog: 

https://santmatradhasoami.blogspot.com/2019/04/evidence-that-jesus-and-original.html

The Hidden Sayings of John the Baptist -- Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

 

The Hidden Sayings of John the Baptist: A Voice Crying Out in the Wilderness -- Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

The Lord's Prayer of the New Testament is modeled after the Prayer of John the Baptist. “Master, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” (Gospel of Luke) In light of this, today we begin by examining the Lord's Prayer from various translations including some that are rather mindful of the Aramaic roots of the Jesus Movement. We also consult with the Gospel of the Nazoreans. Shared as well during this program is: 1) a Prayer of John found in a Syriac Aramaic manuscript; 2) a vegetarian saying attributed to the Prophet John present in the Slavonic Book of Josephus; 3) another vegetarian saying of John located in the Scroll of John the Baptizer (Drasa d-Yahya); 4) along with several passages from the famous Mandaean Gnostic scholar Ethel Stefana Drower commenting on the vegetarianism of the original John the Baptist sect of the Trans-Jordan known as the Nasoraeans (Nazoreans). And then the main feature of today's Spiritual Awakening Radio podcast 5): readings from the Hidden Words of John, a collection of wisdom sayings found in the Great Treasure, some ancient manuscripts written in the Mandaic dialect of the Aramaic language. This 'proverbs' or 'sayings' type format of "The Instructions of John the Baptist" reminds me very much of another book from antiquity, and it also happens to be attributed to John's most famous disciple Yeshua: The Gospel of Thomas, "hidden words that the living Jesus spoke." Readers of the New Testament and extra-canonical scriptures of the various early Jewish, Christian and Gnostic sects typically aren't used to seeing many actual direct quotes from John, and yet there are many sayings to be found if one knows where to look. Today's podcast is dedicated to the teachings of the Prophet John (Yuhana) the Baptist, a mysterious "voice crying out in the wilderness."

Listen to This Podcast @ YouTube:  

 https://youtu.be/JSzAz3Yh1qI

@ Apple Podcasts:  

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hidden-sayings-of-john-the-baptist/id1477577384?i=1000562170043

@ Spotify:  

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7oWHqWjVNddMrTcgVlGw1F

@ The Spiritual Awakening Podcast Website: 

https://spiritualawakeningradio.libsyn.com/website/the-hidden-sayings-of-john-the-baptist

@ Amazon Podcasts: 

https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ca7918b0-4005-4724-a2e5-b27f51ecdba6/spiritual-awakening-radio

@ Audible:  

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio/dp/B08K561DZJ

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https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/2cs9c-a1297/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio-Podcast

OR @ Wherever You Subscribe to Podcasts (Google Podcasts, Amazon, Stitcher, PodBean, iHeart Radio, etc...):  

https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio

References, Subjects, and Sources Include:

John the Baptist, Mandaean Book of John the Baptist, Drasa dYahya, Codex Nazaraeus, the Prophet John the Baptist, Spiritual Awakening Radio, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, Sant Mat Radhasoami, sant mat, Radhasoami, radhaswami, surat shabd yoga, santmat, religion, spiritual podcasts, world scriptures, podcasts, spirituality, vegetarian, Christianity, vegan, New Testament, Mandaean, Gnosticism, Gnostic, Gnostics, apocrypha, Aramaic, Syriac, Mandaic, Prayer of John, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Thomas, Hidden Words, Ginza Rabba, Ginza Rba, Great Treasure, The Lords Prayer, Nasoraeans, Gospel of the Nazoreans, Nazoreans, Judaism, New Testament Apocrypha, Apocrypha, Josephus, E.S. Drower, Ethel Stefana Drower, Essenes, Ebionites, Jesus Movement, Jesus, Christ, Yeshua, Yuhana, Sabians, People of the Book, Baptizers, Mandaeans, pure vegetarianism, pure vegetarian,

Also See the Podcast: Evidence That John the Baptist Was A Vegetarian: 

https://youtu.be/rBM34Cm4laE

All for the Love of Wisdom, Radio, and Podcasts,

James Bean

Spiritual Awakening Radio

https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com

Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast: Mandaean Nasoraean Gnostic Spirituality -- The Mandaean Scriptures Are Out Of This World!

 

 

Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast: Mandaean Nasoraean Gnostic Spirituality -- The Mandaean Scriptures Are Out Of This World!

A rare glimpse into the origins of Christianity and Gnosticism. Today we explore the history, the scriptures, the mystic teachings and poetry of the root group, the common ancestor, the earlier original spiritual movement in antiquity out of which emerged the Jesus Movement (Ebionites), the Elkasites, and the Mandaean Gnostics. I speak of the Nasoraeans, the followers of John the Baptist. The Nag Hammadi texts may represent the prose of the Gnostics, but it is the Nasoraean Mandaean scriptures that give us the poetry!

@ YouTube:  

https://youtu.be/Fv-2faDHgXQ

@ Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mandaean-nasoraean-gnostic-spirituality/id1477577384?i=1000553429152

Page @ Apple Podcasts:   

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spiritual-awakening-radio/id1477577384

@ Spotify:  

https://open.spotify.com/show/5kqOaSDrj630h5ou65JSjE

@ Amazon Podcasts:

https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ca7918b0-4005-4724-a2e5-b27f51ecdba6/spiritual-awakening-radio

@ Audible:  

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio/dp/B08K561DZJ

@ iHeart Radio:  

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-spiritual-awakening-radio-61641947

@ PodBean:  

https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/2cs9c-a1297/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio-Podcast

@ TuneIN: 

https://tunein.com/podcasts/Religion--Spirituality-Podcasts/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio-With-James-Bean-p1325615

@ Scribd:  

https://www.scribd.com/podcast-show/552851219/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio

@ The Internet Archive:  

https://archive.org/details/mandaean-nasoraean-gnostic-spirituality

@ All The Podcast APPS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, etc...:  

https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio

@ Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast Website: 

https://spiritualawakeningradio.libsyn.com/website/mandaean-nasoraean-gnostic-spirituality

@ The Spiritual Awakening Radio Website: https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com

References, Subjects, and Sources Include:

Mandaean, Mandaeism, Mandaeanism, Mandaeans, Mandaic, Aramaic, Nasoraeans, Nazorean, Nasoraean, Nazoraean, Nazoreans, Nasrani, Nazoraioi, Nasara, Nazareth, Gnostic, Gnosis, Gnosticism, Gnostic Gospels, Essenes, Ebionites, Jesus Movement, Christianity, Elkasites, John the Baptist, Yuhana, Yeshua, Jesus, Christ, Simon Magus, Dosythius, Dositheus, Manda-d-Hiya, Sethians, Spirituality, Peshitta, Syriac Gospels, Gospel of John, Ginza Rba, Ginza Rabba, Great Treasure, Right Ginza, Left Ginza, Codex Nasaraeus,  Nag Hammadi Library, ES Drower, The Secret Adam, vegetarianism, pure vegetarianism, vegetarian, Canonical Prayer Book of the Mandaeans, Book of John the Baptizer, Gnosis The Nature and History of Gnosticism, Kurt Rudolph, Werner Foerster, Gnosis II, Keith Akers, Disciples, Light on Saint John, Quest For Light, Charan Singh, Baptism, Initiation, Light, Divine Light, Jordan River, Great Life, Supreme Being, Ascension of the Soul, Place of the Light, Baptism of Light, River of Souls, Mystic Light, Heavens, Audible Life Stream, Sound Current, Logos, Word, Sant Mat, Radhasoami, Radhaswami, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, Spirituality Podcasts, Spiritual Awakening Radio, Spiritual Awakening Podcasts,

In her book, The Secret Adam, E.S. Drower writes: "Amongst Mandaeans there is an oral tradition that some of them were once vegetarians." For more on the vegetarianism of the original Nasoraeans (John the Baptist sect) and Ebionites (Jesus Movement) see the book, Disciples, by Keith Akers.

The role of the Heavenly Messenger is to give the mystic experience of light to souls and eventually guide them back up to the Place of Light, the Mandaean term for the highest heaven where the Great Life (God) resides. Here are some passages of mystic poetry from Mandaean holy books on Manda-d-Hiya -- the great heavenly redeemer and the spirituality of the Mandaean Gnostics:

The Illuminator of the Worlds of Light

In The Name Of The Great Life,

Sublime Light Be Praised.

From the Place of Light I came forth,

from you, Bright Habitation.

I come to touch hearts,

to measure and try all minds,

to see in whose heart I dwell.

Whoever thinks of me, of him I think;

whoever calls my Name, his name I will call.

Whosoever prays my prayer from the earth,

his prayer I will offer from the Place of Light.

I came and found the truthful

and believing hearts.

When I was not dwelling among them,

yet my Name was on their lips.

I took them and guided them up

to the World of Light.

I became the Illuminator

of the Worlds of Light.

I became a king to the Nazoreans,

who receive praise and stability

through my Name.

And by my Name they ascend

to the Place of the Light.

As for the elect righteous

who put me on as a garment,

their eyes were filled with Light,

and Manda-d-Hiya [Knowledge of Life]

was established in their hearts.

The worlds know not Thy name, nor recognize Thy light.

O fie on those who sit and eat and drink.

On those who quarrel and persecute!

Day by day they sit on thrones of insolence

And persecute the name of the Life;

{Yet) they knew not the name of the Life,

Nor did the idea of the Life enter their minds.

{But) we have testified to Life and put our trust in Life;

And Manda-d-Hiia [Knowledge of the Life, Gnosis of the Life] stood by us,

was of our company

And was our Helper.

Go to the house of him who knows Me,

Those who know me, for I dwell amongst them

In the hearts of my friends

And the thoughts of my disciples.

And Life is victorious.

I wait upon the Life and mine eyes upon Manda-d-Hiia; for

they will be my support, my deliverer and saviour

from the Place of Darkness

to the Place of Light.

In the name of the Life!

Blessed and praised be the Life!

Blessed and praised be the name of Life in the Place of Light!

Blessed and praised are you, my lord, Manda-d-Hiia;

You and your strength, your radiance, your height, your glory and your

help.

My chosen! Do not put your trust

in the kings, rulers, and rebels of this world,

nor in military forces, arms, conflict,

and the hosts which they assemble,

nor in silver and gold…

their gold and their silver

will not save them.

Their authority passes away

and comes to an end.

Thou hast showed us that which the eye has not seen,

and caused us to hear that which the human ear has not heard.

Thou has freed us from death and united us with Life,

released us from darkness,

and united us with Light...

Thou hast shown us that which the eye has not seen,

and caused us to hear that which the human ear has not heard.

(Canonical Prayer Book of the Mandaeans)

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Ebionite (Nasoraean, Jewish or Hebrew Christian) Scriptures and Vegetarian Gospels

Link BACK to the MAIN PAGE of the E-Library: https://SantMatRadhasoami.Blogspot.com/2019/01/sant-mat-radhasoami-books-main-page-e.html


Ebionite (Hebrew Christian) Scriptures

The Hebrew Christian-Nasoraean-Ebionite-Clementine-James the Just Page: The Original Christianity (Christianity Before Paul), A Collection of Ebionite Scriptures and Vegetarian Gospels of the Jesus Movement Affiliated with James the Just or Teacher of Righteousness, Also Other Early Jewish/Hebrew Christian Sources, Thr John the Baptist Group, Aramaic Mandaean Texts, etc…

I do agree with the scholar Robert Eisenman that finding the historic James the Just (brother and spiritual successor of Jesus) is the most logical way to locate a historic Jesus. This Nasoraean/James the Just/Ebionite page is a project to gather together what remains of their scriptures so this original group — Christianity before Paul — awkwardly marginalized by Paul and later Roman versions of Christianity — can be more easily accessed. I do include the Gospel of Thomas on the list because of GoT Saying #12, which states that James the Just, Jesus’s brother, is his spiritual successor. Plus, saying two of the Gospel of Thomas is also found in the Gospel of the Hebrews. Mostly what has survived of Ebionite writings comes to us in the form of the Clementine literature, which is quite amazing material.

Library: Essential Essene & Ebionite Texts (free pdfs): 

https://www.essenechurch.com/resources.html

Sayings of Jesus

Reconstructed Q Gospel found in, The Complete Gospels, by Robert J. Miller: 

https://archive.org/details/complete-gospels-ed.-robert-j.-miller/page/253/mode/2up

The Q Thomas Reader - The best and most readable one-volume introduction available to the Sayings Gospel Q and the Gospel of Thomas-the very earliest collections of the sayings and parables of Jesus: 

https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Reader-English-Coptic/dp/0944344119

https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780944344118

Coptic Gospel of Thomas from Nag Hammadi: 

https://othergospels.com/thomas/?a=halsall

The Didache: 

https://othergospels.com/didache

Letter of James: 

https://othergospels.com/bible/james

Secret Book of James

https://othergospels.com/james

The Gospel of Philip:

https://othergospels.com/philip

The Evangelion: Proto-Luke Published by Marcion: 

https://othergospels.com/marcion

Also See: The First New Testament: Marcion’s Scriptural Canon

by Jason David BeDuhn (The Evangelion: Proto-Luke and, The Apostolikon: Ten Less Edited Earlier Versions of Letters of Paul, Pre-Canonical Paul): 

 https://archive.org/details/the-first-new-testament-marcions-scriptural-canon

Early Christian Psalms: The Book of the Odes: 

https://othergospels.com/odes

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/odes.html

Other Gospels.com: 

https://OtherGospels.com/alphabetical-index

The Complete Gospels, by Robert J. Miller: 

https://archive.org/details/MILLERCompleteGospels1994

The Research of Prof. James Tabor 

on the Original Jesus Movement and James the Just: 

How James [Yaaqov] Beloved Brother of Jesus 

Was Written out of Early Christianity:

https://youtu.be/2n5Qg_ekQ_E?si=81V1MfBvg8tL4TZD

The Research of Keith Akers

I highly recommend two books by Keith Akers on the original Jesus Movement (Christianity-Before-Paul), the Ebionites: "Disciples": 
https://www.amazon.com/Disciples-Jewish-Christianity-Shaped-Shattered-ebook/dp/B00J48GAJE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=keith+akers&qid=1586786123&sr=8-1

And by Keith Akers..."The Lost Religion of Jesus": 
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Religion-Jesus-Christianity-Non-Violence-ebook/dp/B003KTNBMM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1586786168&refinements=p_27%3AKeith+Akers&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=Keith+Akers

Read for free online, The Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity, by Akers, Keith: 

https://archive.org/details/lostreligionofje0000aker/mode/2up

Read for free online, The Vegetarianism of Jesus Christ, by Charles Paul Vaclavik:

https://archive.org/details/vegetarianismofj0000vacl

Vegetarian Diet: Article: Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians: “James was a vegetarian….” (Robert Eisenman, James the Brother of Jesus) “James, the brother of the Lord, lived on seeds and plants and touched neither meat nor wine.” (Epistulae ad Faustum XXII, 3) “The Apostle Matthew partook of seeds, and nuts, hard-shelled fruits, and vegetables, without flesh.” (Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor, Book 2, Chapter 1) Peter said, “I live on olives and bread, to which I rarely only add vegetables.” (Clementine Homilies 12,6; also see, Recognitions 7,6) @ Medium: https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/b8784ac42506

The Dietary Divide: Vegetarianism as a Wedge Issue in First-Century Christianity, by Christopher M. Sartain: 

https://www.academia.edu/144633880/The_Dietary_Divide_Vegetarianism_as_a_Wedge_Issue_in_First_Century_Christianity?source=swp_share

God Never Desired Animal Sacrifice: Evidence from the Prophets and the Early Jesus Movement, by Christopher M Sartain:  https://www.academia.edu/144683591/God_Never_Desired_Animal_Sacrifice_Evidence_from_the_Prophets_and_the_Early_Jesus_Movement

A Relationship Between the Gospel of Thomas 

and the Gospel of the Hebrews

“It seems that, in constructing his ‘harmony’ [Diatessaron], he [Tatian] used not just the ‘canonical’ Gospels, but also a ‘fifth source’, whose material sometimes agreed with readings proper to texts like the Gospel to the Hebrews or the Gospel of Thomas. It has been proposed to identify this source with that Aramaic tradition of Palestinian origin, independent of the Greek Gospels, that had first conveyed a knowledge of Jesus to the peoples of Syria, pivoting, to begin with, on the region’s Jewish communities. Certainly, West Aramaic expressions or, more generally, elements left a deep mark not just and perhaps not so much on the Peshitta as on the more general exegetical and ‘spiritual’ meditation of the Churches of Syria, as many recent studies have demonstrated (cf. e.g. S. Brock, The Lost Old Syriac…).”

— Paolo Bettiolo, Syriac Literature, page 426: https://archive.org/details/SyriacLiterature

Ebionite Scriptures — Original Disciples,


Hebrew Christians


The Jerusalem Group — 


James the Just, 


Collections of the Sayings of Yeshua

Sayings of Wisdom -- 4 Versions of the COPTIC


Gospel of Thomas (Sayings of Jesus):

(1) The Coptic Gospel of Thomas Followed by (down the page) the Oxyrhynchus Greek Gospel of Thomas:

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/thomas-layton.html

(2): http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom-meyer.html (This version of the Gospel of Thomas translated by Marvin Meyer has a slightly more Aramaic-Syriac flavor to it.)

(3): https://web.archive.org/web/20190725071654/https://users.misericordia.edu/davies/thomas/Thomas.html

(4): https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas

(5): https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas.html

(6) From OtherGospels.com Various Translations of GoT including a Topical Gospel of Thomas: 

https://othergospels.com/thomas

(7): https://othergospels.com/thomas/?a=halsall

The sayings attributed to Jesus but uniquely associated with the Gospel of Thomas tradition also were also quoted far and wide in other early Christian writings. An impressive book documenting the transmission of these “Thomasonian” parallel sayings of Jesus is: Extracanonical Sayings of Jesus, by William D. Stroker, Published by Scholars Press, Atlanta (1989) ISBN 10: 1555400558, ISBN 13: 9781555400552

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5269734W/Extracanonical_sayings_of_Jesus

http://www.worldcat.org/title/extracanonical-sayings-of-jesus/oclc/246551120

Summarizing the Spiritual Message of the Gospel of Thomas in the Context of Syriac Mysticism, by James Bean: https://medium.com/@SantMat/summarizing-the-spiritual-message-of-the-gospel-of-thomas-by-james-bean-90862170ac8a

The Gospel of Thomas - Wisdom of the Twin, Lynn Bauman translation: 

https://archive.org/details/gospelofthomaswi0000unse/mode/2up

Professor Steven Davies has written some valuable observations about the "Primordial Light" mysticism of the Gospel of Thomas:

http://users.misericordia.edu/davies/thomas/jblprot.htm  

Gospel of Thomas COMMENTARY: 

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas/index.html

Gospel of Thomas Resource Center, by Michael W Grondin: 

http://gospel-thomas.net

The GREEK Gospel of Thomas -- The Gospel of 

Thomas Fragments from Oxyrhynchus: 

http://gnosis.org/naghamm/thomas_poxy.htm

The Greek Oxyrhynchus Gospel of Thomas was published in 1897 in the book, Sayings of Our Lord from Early Greek Papyrus, by BERNARD GRENFELL and ARTHUR HUNT: https://archive.org/details/sayingsourlordf00huntgoog

Bentley Layton's Translation (Scroll Down Past the Coptic Thomas Translation to get to the Greek Oxyrhynchus Fragments):

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/thomas-layton.html

Veg Saying of Jesus from Islam: Christ said, “Flesh eating flesh? How offensive an act!” - The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature, by Tarif Khalidi: 

https://archive.org/details/the-muslim-jesus-sayings-and-stories-in-islamic-literature-collected-edited-and-/mode/2up

The saying above reminds me of The Gospel of Thomas, Saying 112: Soul should be independent of flesh: Jesus said, “Woe to the flesh that depends upon a soul. Woe to the soul that depends upon flesh.” (The Gnostic Scriptures, Bentley Layton, David Brakke)

The Gospel of Q Collection

The Q Gospel According to Dr. James Tabor:

https://jamestabor.com/try-reading-the-gospel-of-q-based-on-luke

The Q Gospel:
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/q.html

Q: The Lost Sayings Source Burton Mack's translation:

https://www.tonyburke.ca/wp-content/uploads/Burton-Macks-Q-Text.pdf

The Sayings Gospel Q -- International Q Project: 

http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~kloppen/iqpqet.htm

The Sayings Gospel Q -- Text according to Funk/Miller:

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/q-funk.html

The Q Gospel: 
https://www.gospels.net/quelle

Sayings of Wisdom -- Sayings Gospel Q:

http://www.tonyburke.ca/wp-content/uploads/Burton-Macks-Q-Text.pdf

Jesus in Q: The Sabbath and Theology of the Bible and Extracanonical Texts: 

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jesus_in_Q/e3ijDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=archive.org+Jesus+in+Q:+The+Sabbath+and+Theology+of+the+Bible+and+Extracanonical+Texts&pg=PA15&printsec=frontcover

Collections of Sayings of Jesus, 


Gospel Fragments, 

Gospel of the Hebrews, 

Hebrew Matthew,

Gospel of the Nazoraeans,

Gospel of the Ebionites, 

Gospel of Peter,

Syriac-Aramaic Matthew, 

Syriac-Aramaic Mark, 

Syriac-Aramaic Luke, 

and Syriac-Aramaic John

Other Collections of Sayings of Jesus:
https://torahofyeshuah.blogspot.com/2015/05/gospel-of-hebrews-matthew-ebionites.html

Sayings Attributed to Jesus from Lesser-known Gospels:
https://medium.com/@SantMat/sayings-attributed-to-jesus-from-lesser-known-gospels-976c691105eb

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840 Gospel Fragment:
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/poxy840.html

Gospel of the Savior:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0944344682/peterkirby


Gospel of Peter: 

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelpeter-andrewbernhard.html

“Some apocryphal gospels testify to the reverence Jewish followers of Jesus (like the Ebionites) had for James. The Gospel of the Hebrews fragment 21 confirms the account of Paul in 1 Corinthians regarding the risen Jesus’ appearance to James*, and this is mentioned also by the Gospel of Thomas (one of the works included in the Nag Hammadi library), saying 12, which relates that the disciples asked Jesus, ‘We are aware that you will depart from us. Who will be our leader?’ Jesus said to them, ‘No matter where you come [from] it is to James the Just that you shall go, for whose sake heaven and earth have come to exist.’” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_the_Just

*Note: The Apostle Paul didn’t seem to be very acquainted with the contents of Gospels. Not much from Jesus or Gospels are to be found quoted in his letters. For Paul to be familiar with the story recorded in the Gospel of the Hebrews about the Resurrected Christ appearing to James, this indicates that some form of the Gospel of the Hebrews (Ebionites or Nazoraeans) must have been one of the earliest Gospels, somewhat older than — or contemporary with — Paul’s Letters. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians dates back to around 53–57 AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Corinthians

Gospel of the Ebionites: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelebionites-panarion.html

Gospel of the Hebrews: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelhebrews-throck.html

Gospel of the Hebrews: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/gospelhebrews.html

The Gospel of the Nazoreans: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/nazoreans-ogg.html

The Gospel of the Nazoreans: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelnazoreans.html

Surviving Quotes from the Jewish-Christian Gospels: Gospel of the Ebionites, Gospel of the Hebrews, and Gospel of the Nazoraeans: https://web.archive.org/web/20210223222109/http://www.textexcavation.com/jewishgospels.html

Hebrew Gospel of Matthew (Shem Tov’s Hebrew Matthew), George Howard: 

https://archive.org/details/Hebrew.Gospel.of.MatthewEvenBohanIbn.ShaprutHoward.1987/mode/1up

Another Copy:

https://archive.org/details/gospelofmatthewa0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up

Hard Copy:

https://www.amazon.com/HEBREW-GOSPEL-MATTHEW-George-Howard/dp/0865549893/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Hebrew+Gospel+of+Matthew&qid=1659514702&sr=8-1

About:

https://pages.charlotte.edu/james-tabor/christian-origins-and-the-new-testament/the-hebrew-gospel-of-matthew

Evangelion da-Mepharreshe Matthew, Mark, John, and Luke

There's a very old Syriac-Aramaic manuscript of the Four Gospels that even predates the Syriac Peshitta called Evangelion da-Mepharreshe. It contains some “textual variants”, differs from the Greek gospel manuscripts, and the now standardized, conformist approach used by most New Testament translators. There are two surviving editions of Evangelion da-Mepharreshe, the Curetonian Version of the Four Gospels as well as the Sinai Palimpsest, also known as The Old Syriac Gospels. Evangelion da-Mepharreshe represents a translation and “one of the earliest witnesses”* of an even older collection of gospel manuscripts that no longer exist but once were “in circulation between the second and the fifth centuries”*.: 

https://archive.org/details/cu31924092359680/page/n417/mode/2up?view=theater

*Note: Page xviii, “Peshitta New Testament, The Antioch Bible English Translation”, Gorgias Press, discussion from the Preface about the history of the early Syriac-Aramaic manuscripts of the gospels.

The Diatessaron (What Survives of Tatian’s Gospel Harmony): https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/diatessaron.html

New Testament Apocrypha:
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/apocrypha.html

Testament of our Lord in Galilee (The Epistula Apostolorum: Letter of the Apostles):
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/apostolorum.html

The Testament of Our Lord, Translated into English from the Syriac:
https://archive.org/details/cu31924029296170/page/n8/mode/2up

Islamic Traditions of Sayings of Jesus

The Muslim Jesus -- This work presents in English translation the largest collection ever assembled of the sayings and stories of Jesus in Arabic Islamic literature: The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature, by Tarif Khalidi.

Also See, Al Ghazali's "Sayings of Jesus", taken from his "Revival of the Religious Sciences: https://imgur.com/a/Y681p5l   (excerpted from, The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-four Formative Texts, by Robert M. Price)


Also See, The Unknown Sayings of Jesus, by Marvin Meyer.

The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-four 

Formative Texts, by Robert Price: 

https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Nicene-New-Testament-Fifty-four-Formative/dp/1560851945/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1600016067&sr=8-6

The Vegetarianism of the Jesus Movement, Nasoraeans and Ebionites: The above quoted passage is from the Clementine Homilies Book Eight as mentioned by James Tabor: https://youtu.be/Um82vqqS3XE?t=983

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: 

The Vast Treasure-Trove 

of the Clementine Literature




Epistle (Letter) of Peter to James:
https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Homilies/Epistle-Peter-to-James.htm


Epistle (Letter) of Clement to James:
https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Homilies/Epistle-Clement-to-James.htm

Also See: 
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/080800.htm



Kerygmata Petrou 

(Preachings of Peter Reconstructed):
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/kerygmatapetrou.html

The Ascents of James: 

History and Theology of 

a Jewish-Christian Community, by Robert E. Van

 Voorst:  

https://archive.org/details/ascentsofjameshi0000vanv/mode/2up

The Clementine Homilies and 

The Clementine Recognitions 

(Ebionite Book of Acts)



Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Recognitions of Clement, from the Greek and Latin Manuscripts: 
https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Recognitions/Recognitions-TOC.htm

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Clementine Homilies, from the Greek and Latin Manuscripts:

https://compassionatespirit.com/Books/Homilies/Homilies-TOC.htm

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The SYRIAC-ARAMAIC Manuscripts of the Recognitions and Homilies: 
https://www.academia.edu/9843447/The_Syriac_Clementine_Recognitions_and_Homilies_The_First_Complete_Translation_of_the_Text

The Eight Books of Clement:
https://torahofyeshuah.blogspot.com/2015/08/8-books-of-clement.html

The Clementine Books at the Sacred Texts Website:
https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/index.htm

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Recognitions of Clement:
https://archive.org/details/AnteNiceneChristianLibraryVol031867/page/n7

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: The Clementine Homilies:
https://archive.org/details/clementinehomili00clem/page/n7

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: Helpful Table of Contents for the Clementine Literature and Other Writings: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.toc.html

Acts and Teachings of the Ebionites: Clementine Homilies: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/clementinehomilies.html

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume VIII — The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, THE CLEMENTIA (Clementine Literature), Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Ages: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.pdf http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.txt

The Didache, pronounced “DID-dah-kay”, meaning: "The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations", is not quite a Jewish-Christian text in its present form but represents a First Century document authored by a community aware of the Jewish-Christians, adjacent to them, and is respectful of them. Chapters one through six is the earliest section and the closest to Jewish Christianity. Includes a reference to vegetarianism as part of "The Yoke of the Lord", the ethical code of the disciples of Jesus being perfected in their faith. This scripture seems to be intended for newly converted gentile Christians.  Several translations are here. The Roberts-Donaldson English translation is the best: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/didache.html

Letter of Jude (New Testament):

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jude&version=NIV&showfn=yes&showxref=yes&language=en

Letter of the Apostle James (New Testament):

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=james&version=NIV&showfn=yes&showxref=yes&language=en

The Apocryphon of James (Nag Hammadi):

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/jam2.html

The First Apocalypse of James (Nag Hammadi):

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/1ja.html

The Second Apocalypse of James (Nag Hammadi):

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/2ja.html

Thomas the Contender (Spiritual Athlete): 

http://gnosis.org/naghamm/bookt.html

Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (from the Syriac), translated by William Wright (including the Hymn of the Peal and the Complete Acts of Thomas): 
https://archive.org/details/apocryphalactsa02wriggoog/page/n172

Psalms/ODES/Hymns of the New Testament Age

Odes @ Gnosis.org:

http://gnosis.org/library/odes.htm

Psalms/ODES of the New Testament Age: The First Hymn-Book — Hymns — Poetry — The Book of the Odes:

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/odes.html

Psalms/ODES of the New Testament Age: The First Hymn-Book — Hymns — Poetry — The Book of the Odes, Alphonse Mingana Translation:
https://archive.org/details/odespsalmsofsolo02harruoft/page/n5/mode/2up

Odes of Solomon:

https://www.nuhra.net/nuhra-2020

ABOUT the Odes: Odes of Solomon: Early Hymns of the Jewish Christian Mystical Tradition:

https://www.academia.edu/4440268/Odes_of_Solomon_Early_Hymns_of_the_Jewish_Christian_Mystical_Tradition

Philo of Alexandria on the Therapeutae: http://www.thenazareneway.com/therapeutae.html


Philo of Alexandria on the Essenes:
 http://cojs.org/philo-_every_good_man_is_free_xii-_75-87-_description_of_the_essenes



Dead Sea Scrolls - Dead Sea Scriptures in English

James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher, Robert Eisenman:

https://archive.org/details/jamesjustinhabak0000eise/mode/2up

The Midrash Pesher of Habakkuk, Scholar's Press: 

https://archive.org/details/midrashpesherofh0000unse/mode/2up

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the first Christians, Robert Eisenman:

https://archive.org/details/B-001-001-900/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/deadseascrollsfi00eise

The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Géza Vermes, 

Online Translation: https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-Uy_BZ_QGsaLiJ4Zs/The%20Dead%20Sea%20Scrolls%20%5BComplete%20English%20Translation%5D#page/n2/mode/1up

The Dead Sea Scriptures, T.H. Gaster: 

https://archive.org/details/deadseascripture00theo/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.17421/page/3/mode/2up

The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, Robert Eisenman: 

https://archive.org/details/TheDeadSeaScrollsUncoveredEisenmanWise1992

https://archive.org/details/deadseascrollsun0000unse_o6d9/page/n319/mode/2up

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Penguin Classics: 

https://archive.org/details/the-complete-dead-sea-scrolls-in-english-pdfdrive_202211/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/completedeadseas0000unse_p8c4

The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: 

https://archive.org/details/B-001-001-920

The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: 

https://archive.org/details/B-001-001-932

Dead Sea Scrolls: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/scrolls_deadsea/scrolls_deadsea.htm

The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Online Translation: https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-Uy_BZ_QGsaLiJ4Zs/The%20Dead%20Sea%20Scrolls%20%5BComplete%20English%20Translation%5D#page/n2/mode/1up

Dead Sea Scroll Translations @ Gnosis.org:
http://gnosis.org/library/scroll.htm



Nasoraeans: John the Baptist Group & Mandaeans

Sayings of Yuhana (John The Baptist) - Mandaean Nasoraean, Ginza Rabba (Great Treasure): 

https://archive.org/details/sayings-of-yuhana-john-the-baptist-mandaean-nasoraean/page/n1/mode/2up

Sayings of Yuhana (John The Baptist) - Mandaean Nasoraean, Ginza Rabba (Great Treasure, Another Translation): 

https://culminationofwisdom.org/2025/08/08/sayings-of-john-the-baptist-from-the-ginza-rabba

Hidden Sayings of John the Baptist: 

https://youtu.be/JSzAz3Yh1qI

https://archive.org/details/hidden-sayings-of-john-the-baptist

The Original John the Baptist Group, the Mandaeans (also known as Nazarenes, Nasuraiia or Nasoraeans) — Mandaean Aramaic Scriptures Online — Gnosis Library: http://www.gnosis.org/library/mand.htm

A New Life of John the Baptist: 

https://archive.org/details/woodbrookestudie01theouoft/page/138/mode/2up?q=vegetarian

MANDAEAN: CANONICAL PRAYER-BOOK OF THE MANDAEANS: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.530195

Canonical Prayer-Book of the Mandaeans:

https://www.oocities.org/mandaeanworld1/cpindex.html

MANDAEAN: CANONICAL PRAYER-BOOK OF THE MANDAEANS: http://books.google.com/books?id=1c8UAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1&dq=THE+CANONICAL+PRAYERBOOK+%0D%0AOF+THE+MANDAEANS&hl=en&ei=v-HJTK2HKsX7lwfhlOXMAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Ginza Rabba - Mark Lidzbarski Translation from German Into English: 

https://archive.org/details/ginza-lidzbarski-mark-ram-al-sabiry.translated-2/page/n1/mode/2up

Ginza Rabba & the Qolasta @ Wikisource:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Ginza_Rabba

The Mandaean Book of John the Baptist: http://rogueleaf.com/book-of-john/category/john-the-baptist

Scroll of Miryai-Noorah (Mary Magdalene), Drashe d-Malke 34 & 35:

https://deepgnosis.org/miryaiscroll.html

Mandaean Scriptures: http://egnu93.wordpress.com/writings/mandaean-gnostic-texts

Mandaean Scriptures: http://www.essene.com/B%27nai-Amen/vbelief.htm

https://www.oocities.org/mandaeanworld1/manlit.html

Revisiting the Mandaeans and the New Testament: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/2013/08/mcg378026.shtml

Mandaean Scriptures:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Qolasta

Mandaean Scriptures:

https://worddisk.com/wiki/Right_Ginza/#

About the Mandaeans: 

https://iranicaonline.org/articles/mandaeans-2-religion

Mandaean Glossary of Terms: 

https://www.oocities.org/mandaeanworld1/glossarymain.html

Syriac-Aramaic Saints and Mystics

“The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life”, and other books translated by Sebastian Brock. “The Syriac Fathers…” is from Cistercian Publications — an excellent anthology of Syriac mystics and saints, a kind of Syriac “Philokalia” or “Nag Hammadi”-like collection of important texts. Also see the link at the bottom of the page to, the "Gnostic Gospels, Contemplative or Mystical Christianity, Syriac Mystics", etc... Section of the E-Library. There is a Syriac Section down the page there just below the School of Saint Thomas Section.)

The Stranger of Galilee, by Russell Perkins:

https://archive.org/details/strangerof-galilee

https://issuu.com/santajaibsinghsatsang/docs/stranger_of_galilee__russell_perkin

https://santbaniashram.org/product/the-stranger-of-galilee

The Vegetarianism -- Veganism 

of the Hebrew Christians

Was Jesus a vegan? Blog by Keith Akers: 

https://www.compassionatespirit.com/wpblog/2020/12/14/was-jesus-a-vegan-2

Vegetarian Diet: Article: Uncovering A Vegetarian Jesus at the Beginning of Christianity: “Now beware in yourselves that your hearts do not become heavy with the eating of flesh and with the intoxication of wine and with the anxiety of the world, and that day come up upon you suddenly; for as a snare it will come upon all them that dwell on the surface of the earth.” (Jesus, Luke 21:34, from a Syriac-Aramaic manuscript of the New Testament): https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/9279741be7c4

Vegetarian Diet: Article: Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians: “James was a vegetarian….” (Robert Eisenman, James the Brother of Jesus) “James, the brother of the Lord, lived on seeds and plants and touched neither meat nor wine.” (Epistulae ad Faustum XXII, 3) “The Apostle Matthew partook of seeds, and nuts, hard-shelled fruits, and vegetables, without flesh.” (Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor, Book 2, Chapter 1) Peter said, “I live on olives and bread, to which I rarely only add vegetables.” (Clementine Homilies 12,6; also see, Recognitions 7,6) @ Medium: https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/b8784ac42506

Vegetarian Diet: Article: Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians @ Blogspot:
https://santmatradhasoami.blogspot.com/2019/04/evidence-that-jesus-and-original.html

Vegetarian Diet: Article: Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians @ The Internet Archive: 
https://archive.org/details/JesusAndTheOriginalAramaicChristiansWereVegetarians/mode/2up

DOWNLOAD: https://ia803007.us.archive.org/19/items/JesusAndTheOriginalAramaicChristiansWereVegetarians/Evidence%20That%20Jesus%20and%20The%20Original%20Aramaic%20Christians%20Were%20Vegetarians%2C%20By%20James%20Bean.pdf

A Vegetarian Jesus and Apostles at the Beginning of Christianity, and, The Gospels of the Ebionites:

https://youtu.be/HF3cOxbRFH8

Was Jesus A Vegetarian? [Yes.]: 

https://youtu.be/gN-3BfydA-U

John the Baptist's Vegetarian Diet -- An Exploration of Early Christian Writings and Scholarly Texts:

https://youtu.be/rBM34Cm4laE

Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio Interview With Robert Eisenman on how finding the historic James the Just is the most logical approach to locating a historic Jesus: http://youtu.be/0oR-M1sSxrw

Vegetarianism and Gnosticism — Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJh66vIJz0&ab_channel=AeonByteGnosticRadio

Vegetarianism in Early Christianity: 

https://ivu.org/history/christian/christ_veg.html

Vegetarian Christian Saints,

by Holly H. Roberts: 

https://archive.org/details/vegetarianchrist0000holl/mode/2up

Women Priests, Vegetarianism – An Early Christian Manuscript Holds Some Surprises: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2000/02/women-priests-vegetarianism-an-early-christian-manuscript-holds-some-surprises

The Acts of Philip: A New Translation, by François Bovon, Christopher R. Matthews: 

https://www.amazon.com/Acts-Philip-New-Translation/dp/1602586551/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Acts+of+Philip%3A+A+New+Translation&qid=1606592664&sr=8-1

The Ebionites: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ebionites

Books by Robert Eisenman @ Amazon: “James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls”; also, “Dead Sea Scrolls & The First Christians”; and, “James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher” — http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Eisenman/e/B000APV2U2

The Gospel of Jesus: In Search of His Original Teachings, by John Davidson: 

https://archive.org/details/gospelofjesusins0000davi/mode/2up

The Ascension of Isaiah

As with the Books on Enoch, the Ascension of Isaiah was a very important extra-canonical book used by the Jesus Movement. 

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/ascension.html

Medieval Cathar Version: 

http://gnosis.org/library/Cathar-Vision-Isaiah.htm

Other Items of Research and Interest

The Canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Ethiopic Bible, Has 81 books in it, Including the Ethiopic Book of Clement (Qälëmentos):
https://www.ethiopianorthodox.org/english/canonical/books.html

The Ethiopic Book of Clement (Qälëmentos) is discussed here: https://www.academia.edu/32686260/The_Ethiopic_Book_of_Clement_the_case_of_a_recent_Ethiopian_edition_and_a_few_additional_remarks

Some Early Judaeo-Christian Documents in the John Rylands Library; Syriac Texts, ed. with translations, by Alphonse Mingana. He translated some Clement writings and discusses the Clementine literature in this book:
https://archive.org/details/someearlyjudaeoc00ming/page/n1/mode/2up

Woodbrooke Studies, Volume I; Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni, by Alphonse Mingana:
https://archive.org/details/woodbrookestudie01theouoft/mode/2up


Torah of Yeshuah Collection: Syriac Bible, Ethiopian, Clementines, Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scroll Material, etc...
https://torahofyeshuah.blogspot.com/2015/08/nazarene-canon_6.html

Sacred Texts Site:
https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/index.htm



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