Ebionites

Ebionites, or Ebionaioi (Greek: Ἐβιωναῖοι; derived write against a heresiarch called Ebion; scholars believe
from Hebrew ‫ אביונים‬ebyonim, ebionim, meaning “the he derived this name from a literal reading of Ebion-
poor” or “poor ones”), is a patristic term referring to a aioi as “followers of Ebion”, a derivation now considered
Jewish Christian movement that existed during the early mistaken for lack of any more substantial references to
centuries of the Christian Era.[1] They regarded Jesus of such a figure.[11][13] The term “the poor” (Greek ptōkhoí)
Nazareth as the Messiah while rejecting his divinity[2] was still used in its original, more general sense.[11][13]
and insisted on the necessity of following Jewish law Modern Hebrew still uses the Biblical Hebrew term “the
and rites.[3] The Ebionites used only one of the Jewish needy” both in histories of Christianity for “Ebionites”
Gospels, revered James the Just and rejected Paul of Tar- (‫ )אביונים‬and for almsgiving to the needy at Purim.[20]
sus as an apostate from the Law.[4] Their name suggests
that they placed a special value on voluntary poverty. The
Ebionim was one of the terms used by the sect at Qumran 2 History
that sought to separate themselves from the corruption of
the Temple, whom many believe were the Essenes.[5]
The earliest reference to a group that might fit the de-
Since historical records by the Ebionites are scarce, frag- scription of the later Ebionites appears in Justin Mar-
mentary and disputed, much of what is known or con- tyr's Dialogue with Trypho (c. 140). Justin distin-
jectured about the Ebionites derives from the Church Fa- guishes between Jewish Christians who observe the Law
thers, who wrote polemics against the Ebionites, whom of Moses but do not require its observance upon oth-
they deemed heretical Judaizers.[6][7] Consequently, very ers, and those who believe the Mosaic Law to be oblig-
little about the Ebionite sect or sects is known with cer- atory on all.[21] Irenaeus (c. 180) was probably the
tainty, and most, if not all, statements about them are con- first to use the term “Ebionites” to describe a heretical
jectural. judaizing sect, which he regarded as stubbornly cling-
At least one scholar distinguishes the Ebionites from other ing to the Law.[22] Origen (c. 212) remarks that the
Jewish Christian groups, e.g., the Nazarenes;[8] other name derives from the Hebrew word “evyon,” meaning
scholars—and the Church Fathers from the first centuries “poor.”[23] Epiphanius of Salamis in the 4th century gives
after Christ, themselves—consider the Ebionites identical the most complete but also questionable account in his
with the Nazarenes.[8][9] heresiology called Panarion, denouncing eighty hereti-
cal sects, among them the Ebionites.[24][25] Epiphanius
mostly gives general descriptions of their religious beliefs
and includes quotations from their gospels, which have
1 Name not survived. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica
(2011), the Ebionite movement may have arisen about the
time of the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem
The term Ebionites derives from the common adjective
for “poor” in Hebrew (singular: ‫ ֶאְביֹון‬ev·yōn, plural: (AD 70).[26]
‫ אביונים‬ev·yōn·im),[10][11][12] which occurs fifteen times Paul talks of his collection for the “poor among the saints”
in the Psalms and was the self-given term of some pi- in the Jerusalem church, but this is generally taken as
ous Jewish circles (e.g. Psalm 69:33 (“For the LORD meaning “the poorer members of the church” rather than
heareth the poor”) and 1 QpHab XII, 3.6.10).[13] The a schismatic group.[27]
term “Ebionim” was also a self description given by the The actual number of groups described as Ebionites
people who were living in Qumran, as shown in the Dead is difficult to ascertain, as the contradictory patristic
Sea Scrolls. The term “the poor” was at first a common accounts in their attempt to distinguish various sects,
designation for all Christians - a reference to their mate- sometimes confuse them with each other.[13] Other
rial and voluntary poverty.[11][14][15] groups mentioned are the Carpocratians, the Cerinthians,
The graecized Hebrew term “Ebionite” (Ebionai) was first the Elcesaites, the 4th century Nazarenes, and the
applied by Irenaeus in the 2nd century without making Sampsaeans, most of whom were Jewish Christian sects
mention of Nazarenes (c.180 CE).[16][17] Origen wrote who held gnostic or other views rejected by the Ebionites.
“for Ebion signifies 'poor' among the Jews, and those Epiphanius, however, mentions that a group of Ebionites
Jews who have received Jesus as Christ are called by came to embrace some of these views despite keeping
the name of Ebionites.”[18][19] Tertullian was the first to their name.[28]

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2 3 VIEWS AND PRACTICES

As the Ebionites are first mentioned as such in the 2nd (1987) their decline was due to marginalization and
century, their earlier history and any relation to the first extquotedblpersecution extquotedbl by both Jews and
Jerusalem church remains obscure and a matter of con- Christians.[4] Following the defeat of the rebellion and
tention. There is no evidence linking the origin of the the expulsion of all Jews from Judea, Jerusalem became
later sect of the Ebionites with the First Jewish-Roman the Gentile city of Aelia Capitolina. Many of the Jewish
War of 66–70 CE, or that prior to that they formed part Christians residing at Pella renounced their Jewish prac-
of the Jerusalem church led by Jesus’ brother James. Eu- tices at this time and joined to the mainstream Chris-
sebius relates a tradition, probably based on Aristo of tian church. Those who remained at Pella and contin-
Pella, that the early Christians left Jerusalem just prior ued in obedience to the Law were deemed heretics.[31]
to the war and fled to Pella beyond the Jordan River, but In 375, Epiphanius records the settlement of Ebionites
does not connect this with Ebionites.[11][13] They were led on Cyprus, but by the mid-5th century, Theodoret of
by Simeon of Jerusalem (d. 107) and during the Second Cyrrhus reported that they were no longer present in the
Jewish-Roman War of 115–117, they were persecuted by region.[28]
the Jewish followers of Bar Kochba for refusing to rec-
ognize his messianic claims.[28]
2.1 Last days of the Ebionite sect

Map showing the region of Hejaz outlined in red

Some scholars argue that the Ebionites survived much

longer and identify them with a sect encountered by
the historian Abd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad around the year
1000.[32] Another possible reference to surviving Ebion-
ite communities in northwestern Arabia, specifically the
Map of the Decapolis showing the location of Pella. cities of Tayma and Tilmas, around the 11th century, ap-
pears in Sefer Ha'masaot, the “Book of the Travels” of
According to Harnack the influence of Elchasaites places Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela, a rabbi from Spain.[33] 12th-
some Ebionites in the context of the gnostic movements century Muslim historian Muhammad al-Shahrastani
widespread in Syria and the lands to the east.[13][29] mentions Jews living in nearby Medina and Hejaz who
After the end of the First Jewish-Roman War, the im- accepted Jesus as a prophetic figure and followed tradi-
portance of the Jerusalem church began to fade. Jewish tional Judaism, rejecting mainstream Christian views.[34]
Christianity became dispersed throughout the Jewish di- Some scholars argue that they contributed to the devel-
aspora in the Levant, where it was slowly eclipsed by opment of the Islamic view of Jesus due to exchanges of
gentile Christianity, which then spread throughout the Ebionite remnants with the first Muslims.[13][35]
Roman Empire without competition from “judaizing”
Christian groups.[30] Once the Jerusalem church, still
headed by Jesus’ relatives, was eliminated during the Bar
Kokhba revolt in 135, the Ebionites gradually lost in- 3 Views and practices
fluence and followers. According to Hyam Maccoby
3.2 Ebionite views on John the Baptist 3

3.1 Judaic and Gnostic Ebionitism 3.2 Ebionite views on John the Baptist

In the Gospel of the Ebionites, as quoted by

Epiphanius, John the Baptist and Jesus are por-
trayed as vegetarians.[48][49][50] Epiphanius states that the
Most patristic sources portray the Ebionites as traditional Ebionites had amended “locusts” (Greek akris) to “honey
Jews, who zealously followed the Law of Moses, revered cake” (Greek ekris). This emendation is not found in any
Jerusalem as the holiest city,[22] and restricted table fel- other New Testament manuscript or translation.[51][52]
lowship only to Gentiles who converted to Judaism.[21] Though a different vegetarian reading is found in a
late Slavonic version of Josephus' War of the Jews.[53]
Yet some Church Fathers describe some Ebionites as de- Pines (1966) and others propose on the contrary that the
parting from traditional Jewish principles of faith and Ebionites were projecting their own vegetarianism onto
practice. For example, Epiphanius of Salamis stated John the Baptist.[32]
that the Ebionites engaged in excessive ritual bathing,[36]
possessed an angelology which claimed that the Christ
is a great archangel who was incarnated in Jesus and
adopted as the son of God,[37][38] opposed animal sacri-
fice,[38] denying parts or most of the Law,[39] and prac- 3.3 Jesus
ticed Jewish vegetarianism,[40] and celebrated a com-
memorative meal annually,[41] on or around Passover,
with unleavened bread and water only, in contrast to the See also Jesus in the Talmud
daily Christian Eucharist.[24][42][43]
However, the reliability of Epiphanius’ account of the
Ebionites is questioned by some scholars.[6][44] Shlomo The majority of Church Fathers agree that the Ebion-
Pines, for example, argues that the heterodox views and ites rejected many of the precepts central to Nicene or-
practices he ascribes to some Ebionites originated in thodoxy, such as his pre-existence, divinity, virgin birth,
Gnostic Christianity rather than Jewish Christianity, and atoning death, and physical resurrection.[6] On the other
are characteristics of the Elcesaite sect, which Epiphanius hand, an Ebionite story has Jesus eating bread with his
mistakenly attributed to the Ebionites.[32] brother Jacob (“James the Just”) after the resurrection,
Another Church Father who described the Ebionites as which indicates that the Ebionites, or at least the ones
departing from Christian Orthodoxy was Methodius of who accepted this version of the Gospel of the He-
Olympus, who stated that the Ebionites believed that the brews, very much believed in a physical resurrection
prophets spoke only by their own power, and not by the for Jesus.[54] The Ebionites are described as emphasiz-
power of the Holy Spirit.[45] ing the oneness of God and the humanity of Jesus as
the biological son of both Mary and Joseph, who by
While mainstream biblical scholars do suppose some Es- virtue of his righteousness, was chosen by God to be
sene influence on the nascent Jewish-Christian Church in the messianic extquotedblprophet like Moses extquot-
some organizational, administrative and cultic respects, edbl (foretold in Deuteronomy 18:14–22) when he was
some scholars go beyond that assumption. anointed with the Holy Spirit at his baptism.[4] Origen
Regarding the Ebionites specifically, a number of schol- (Contra Celsum 5.61)[55] and Eusebius (Historia Ecclesi-
ars have different theories on how the Ebionites may have astica 3.27.3) recognize some variation in the Christology
developed from an Essene Jewish messianic sect. Hans- of Ebionite groups; for example that while all Ebionites
Joachim Schoeps argues that the conversion of some Es- denied Christ’s pre-existence there was a sub-group which
senes to Jewish Christianity after the Siege of Jerusalem did not deny the virgin birth.[56] Theodoret, while depen-
in 70 CE may be the source of some Ebionites adopting dent on earlier writers,[57] draws the conclusion that the
Essene views and practices;[35] while some conclude that two sub-groups would have used different Gospels.[58]
the Essenes did not become Jewish Christians but still had Of the books of the New Testament, the Ebionites are
an influence on the Ebionites.[46] said to have accepted only a Hebrew (or Aramaic) version
However, Epiphanius of Salamis, in his book Panarion, of the Gospel of Matthew, referred to as the Gospel of
30:17:5, said the following: “But I already showed above the Hebrews, as additional scripture to the Hebrew Bible.
that Ebion did not know these things, but later, his follow- This version of Matthew, Irenaeus reports, omitted the
ers that associated with Elchasai had the circumcision, the first two chapters (on the nativity of Jesus), and started
Sabbath and the customs of Ebion, but the imagination of with the baptism of Jesus by John.[22]
Elchasai”. The Ebionites believed that all Jews and Gentiles must
Doing so, Epiphanius made it clear that the original observe the commandments in the Law of Moses,[21] in
Ebionites were different from those heterodox Ebionites order to become righteous and seek communion with
that he described.[47] God.[59]
4 4 EBIONITE WRITINGS

3.4 James and the Ebionites relatives of Jesus. Epiphanius relates that the Ebionites
opposed the Apostle Paul, whom they saw as responsible
that gentile Christians did not have to be circumcised, nor
One of the popular primary connections of the Ebion-
otherwise follow the Law of Moses, and named him an
ites to James is that noted by William Whiston in his
apostate.[22] Epiphanius further relates that some Ebion-
edition of Josephus (1794) where he notes regarding the
ites alleged that Paul was a Greek who converted to Ju-
murder of James the Just, “we must remember what
daism in order to marry the daughter of a high priest of
we learn from the Ebionite fragments of Hegesippus,
Israel but apostatized when she rejected him.[83][84]
that these Ebionites interpreted a prophecy of Isaiah as
foretelling this very murder”[60] That Hegesippus made As an alternative to the traditional view of Eusebius, that
this connection from Isaiah is undisputed,[61] however the Jerusalem church simply became integrated with the
Whiston’s identification of Hegesippus as an Ebionite, Gentile church, other scholars, such as Richard Bauck-
while common in 18th and 19th century scholarship, is ham, suggest immediate successors to the Jerusalem
debatable.[62] Church under James and the relatives of Jesus were the
Nazoraeans, who accepted Paul, while the Ebionites were
The other popularly proposed connection is that the
a later offshoot of the early 2nd century.[85][86]
Ascents of James in the Pseudo-Clementine literature are
related to the Ebionites.[63]
The Book of Acts begins by showing Peter as leader of
the Jerusalem church - the only church in existence im-
4 Ebionite Writings
mediately after the ascension. Though several years later
Paul lists James prior to “Cephas” (Peter) and John as Few writings of the Ebionites have survived, and these are
those considered “pillars” (Greek styloi) of the Jerusalem in uncertain form. The Recognitions of Clement and the
Church.[64] Eusebius records that Clement of Alexan- Clementine Homilies, two 3rd-century Christian works,
dria wrote that Peter, James, and John chose James the are regarded by general scholarly consensus as largely
Just as bishop of Jerusalem, but Eusebius also subjects or entirely Jewish Christian in origin and reflect Jew-
James to the authority of all the apostles.[65] Peter bap- ish Christian beliefs. The exact relationship between the
tised Cornelius the Centurion, introducing uncircumcised Ebionites and these writings is debated, but Epiphanius’s
Gentiles into the church in Judea.[66][67] Paul, Apostle to description of some Ebionites in Panarion 30 bears a
the Gentiles, established many churches[68] and developed striking similarity to the ideas in the Recognitions and
a Christian theology (see Pauline Christianity). At the Homilies. Scholar Glenn Alan Koch speculates that
Council of Jerusalem (c 49),[67] Paul argued to abrogate Epiphanius likely relied upon a version of the Homilies as
Mosaic observances[69] for non-Jewish converts. When a source document.[25] Some scholars also speculate that
Paul recounted the events to the Galatians (Galatians 2:9- the core of the Gospel of Barnabas, beneath a polemical
10), he referred only to the remembrance of the poor medieval Muslim overlay, may have been based upon an
rather than conveying the four points of the Council of Ebionite or gnostic document.[87] The existence and ori-
Jerusalem (Acts 15:19-21). James Dunn[70] notes the gin of this source continues to be debated by scholars.[88]
conciliatory role of James as depicted in Acts in the ten- John Arendzen (Catholic Encyclopedia article “Ebion-
sion between Paul and those urging the Law of Moses ites” 1909) classifies the Ebionite writings into four
upon Gentiles. groups.[89]
According to Eusebius, after the death of James the
Jerusalem church fled to Pella, Jordan[71] to escape the
siege of the future Emperor Titus, and then after the Bar 4.1 Gospel of the Ebionites
Kokhba revolt the Jerusalem church was permitted to re-
main in the renamed Aelia Capitolina, but notably from Irenaeus stated that the Ebionites used Matthew’s Gospel
this point onward all bishops of Jerusalem bear Greek exclusively.[90] Eusebius of Caesarea later wrote that they
rather than evidently Jewish names.[72][73] used only the Gospel of the Hebrews.[91] From this the
minority view of James R. Edwards (2009) and Bodley’s
Scholars such as: Pierre-Antoine Bernheim,[74] Robert Librarian Edward Nicholson (1879) claims that there
Eisenman,[75][76] Will Durant, Michael Goulder,[77] Gerd was only one Hebrew gospel in circulation, Matthew’s
Ludemann,[78] John Painter,[79] and James Tabor, argue Gospel of the Hebrews. They also note that the title
for some form of continuity of the Jewish Jerusalem Gospel of the Ebionites, was never used by anyone in
church into the 2nd and 3rd centuries, and that the Ebion- the early Church.[92][93][94] Epiphanius contended that the
ites regarded James the Just as their leader. gospel the Ebionites used, was written by Matthew and
Against this scholars including Richard Bauckham dis- called the Gospel of the Hebrews.[95] Because Epiphanius
tinguish the high Christology practiced by the Jerusalem said that it was “not wholly complete, but falsified and
Church under James with the low Christology later mutilated...”,[96] writers such as Walter Richard Cassels
adopted by the Ebionites.[80] Tabor argues[81][82] that the (1877), and Pierson Parker (1940) consider it a different
Ebionites claimed a dynastic apostolic succession for the “edition” of Matthew’s Hebrew Gospel.[97][98] However,
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internal evidence from the quotations in Panarion 30.13.4 name Elkesai to be Aramaic El Ksai, meaning “Hidden
and 30.13.7 suggest that the text was a Gospel harmony Power” (Panarion 19.2.1). Scholar Petri Luomanen be-
originally composed in Greek.[99] lieves the book to have been written originally in Ara-
Mainstream scholarly texts, such as the standard edition maic as a[109]
Jewish apocalypse, probably in Babylonia, in
of the New Testament Apocrypha edited by Wilhelm 116-117.
Schneemelcher generally refer to the text Jerome cites
as used by the Ebionites as the Gospel of the Ebion-
ites, though this is not a term current in the Early
Church.[100][101] 5 Religious and critical perspec-
tives
4.2 Clementine literature
The mainstream Christian view of the Ebionites is partly
The collection of New Testament apocrypha known as based on interpretation of the polemical views of the
the Clementine literature included three works known in Church Fathers who portrayed them as heretics for reject-
antiquity as the Circuits of Peter, the Acts of the Apos- ing many of the central Christian views of Jesus, and al-
tles and a work usually titled the Ascents of James. They legedly having an improper fixation on the Law of Moses
are specifically referenced by Epiphanius in his polemic at the expense of the grace of God.[89] In this view, the
against the Ebionites. The first-named books are substan- Ebionites may have been the descendants of a Jewish
tially contained in the Homilies of Clement under the ti- Christian sect within the early Jerusalem church which
tle of Clement’s Compendium of Peter’s itinerary sermons, broke away from its mainstream theology.[110]
and also in the Recognitions attributed to Clement. They
form an early Christian didactic fiction to express Jewish
Christian views, i.e. the primacy of James the Just, their
connection with the episcopal see of Rome, and their an-
5.1 Modern movements
tagonism to Simon Magus, as well as gnostic doctrines.
Scholar Robert E. Van Voorst opines of the Ascents of The counter-missionary group Jews for Judaism favor-
James (R 1.33–71), “There is, in fact, no section of the ably mentions the historical Ebionites in their literature
Clementine literature about whose origin in Jewish Chris- in order to argue that extquotedblMessianic Judaism ex-
tianity one may be more certain”.[44] Despite this asser- tquotedbl, as promoted by missionary groups such as Jews
tion, he expresses reservations that the material is gen- for Jesus, is Pauline Christianity misrepresenting itself
uinely Ebionite in origin. as Judaism.[111] Some Messianic groups have expressed
concern over leaders in Israel that deny Jesus’ divinity and
the possible collapse of the Messianic movement due to a
4.3 Symmachus resurgence of Ebionitism.[112][113] In a recent polemic, a
Messianic leader asked whether Christians should imitate
[114]
Symmachus produced a translation of the Hebrew Bible the Torah-observance of “neo-Ebionites”.
in Koine Greek, which was used by Jerome and is still ex- The website “Judaism vs Christianity” rejects Paul, and
tant in fragments, and his lost Hypomnemata, written to along with him, Peter and Luke (who acknowledge Paul’s
counter the canonical Gospel of Matthew. Although lost, ministry), in favor of a more Jewish Christianity.[115]
the Hypomnemata[102][103] is probably identical to De dis-
tinctione præceptorum mentioned by Ebed Jesu (Asse-
mani, Bibl. Or., III, 1). The identity of Symmachus as an
Ebionite has been questioned in recent scholarship.[104] 5.2 Islam

Mainstream Islam charges mainstream Christianity with

4.4 Elkesaites having distorted the pure monotheism of Jesus through
the doctrines of trinity and through the veneration of
Hippolytus of Rome (c.230) reports that a Jewish Chris- icons. Paul Addae and Tim Bowes (1998) write that
tian, Alcibiades of Apamea, appeared in Rome teach- the Ebionites were faithful to the original teachings of
ing from a book which he claimed to be the revela- Jesus and thus shared Islamic views about Jesus’ human-
tion which a righteous man, Elkesai, had received from ity, though the Islamic view of Jesus may conflict with
an angel. Though Hippolytus suspected that Alcibiades the view of some Ebionites regarding the virgin birth and
was himself the author.[105] Shortly afterwards Origen the crucifixion.[116] One of the first men to believe in
records a group, the Elkesaites, with the same beliefs.[106] the prophethood of Muhammad was an Ebionite monk
Epiphanius claimed the Ebionites also used this book as named Waraqah ibn Nawfal, the distant cousin of Mo-
a source for some of their beliefs and practices (Panarion hammed, whom Muslims highly honor as a pious man
30.17).[25][107][108] Epiphanius explains the origin of the with deep knowledge of the Christian scriptures.[117]
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