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A movement known as The Nazarenes were a group of artists. Nazarene may also mean a member of the Church Of The Nazarene . Nazarene has several meanings:
DERIVATION OF NAZARENE According to the standard reference for , Gospel Of John , Acts Of The Apostles and Gospel Of Luke . In contrast, the Gospel Of Mark uses /Nazarenos, which means "coming from Nazareth", as does (parallel of ) and . says that Jesus was called the Nazarene because he grew up in Nazareth . However, according to references cited by the BAGD Lexicon, "linguistically the transition from /Nazaret to /Nazoraios is difficult." As BAGD points out, it was clear Nazarene meant something else before it was connected with Nazareth, however it is no longer clear what that other meaning was. In the NASB translation, Jesus is called the Nazarene in ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; . According to , Paul Of Tarsus was accused by the attorney of the Jerusalem High Priest Ananias and "the Jews" of being "a ringleader of the sect of the '''Nazarenes'''". In all, the following derivations have been suggested:
PATRISTIC REFERENCES TO "NAZARENES" After the word "Christian" had become established as the standard term for the followers of Jesus in Hellenistic and Roman cultural circles (the Book Of Acts cites Antioch as the place where followers of Jesus were first called Christians), there appear to have been one or more groups who continued or reverted to calling themselves by various names almost always rendered "Nazarene" in English. Some of the Church Fathers refer to groups with such titles, but there is little further evidence of these groups' existence, beliefs or activities, after the onset of Islam. and his followers, or whether they differed at all from his own but is evident that they can not have accepted the "High" christiology adopted by the church and were closer to having a "Low" christiology. In the 4th Century Jerome also refers to Nazuraioi as those "...who accept Messiah in such a way that they do not cease to observe the old Law." In his ''Epistle'' 79, to Augustine, he said that though they believed in Christ the Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary , who suffered under Pontius Pilate , and rose again, "desiring to be both Jews and Christians, they are neither the one nor the other". He said they used the Aramaic '' Gospel Of The Hebrews '', but, while adhering as far as possible to the Mosaic economy as regarded Circumcision , Sabbath s, Foods and the like, they did not refuse to recognize the apostolicity of Paul or the rights of Gentile Christians (See Jerome's ''Commentary on Isaiah'', ix. I). These facts agree with Epiphanius' distinction of them from the Ebionites who did refuse to recognise the apostolicity of Paul, though Jerome himself confuses them with Filaster's Nazorei in Galaatides. Regarding their scriptures, ''" (''Haer. Fab.'' ii. c. 2). On the other hand Jerome (''Of illustrious men'' 3) writes that the Nazuraioi of Beroea (modern Aleppo ) in Syria gave him the opportunity to copy their Hebrew "Gospel of Matthew". He also writes (''Commentary on Matthew'' 12:13) "There is a Gospel, which the Nazuraioi and Ebionites use, which I lately translated from the Hebrew tongue into Greek and which is called by many the authentic Gospel of Matthew". MODERN MOVEMENTS Starting in the nineteenth century, a number of modern movements have revived the term "Nazarene" (which they take to mean "Netzarim" in Hebrew though "Netzari" is more accurate), usually for one of two reasons: #Since they suppose the word was used of very early followers of Jesus, adopting it lays claim to, or stresses the importance of, a more primitive and therefore more authentic type of Christianity. #Since the word was apparently used of Christians at a time when they were a predominantly Jewish group and before there had been a decisive schism between Christianity and Judaism, adopting it lays claim to, or stresses the importance of, some kind reconciliation of Jewish and Christian beliefs and practices, and typically rejecting modern Christianity as having been led astray by Paul Of Tarsus , or among those who accept Paul and his writings, by Ignatius and the "Hellenistic" Greek and Latin speaking Church Fathers . The best known of these is the Church Of The Nazarene , which emphasizes Christian activism in the Arminian tradition of John Wesley . The Church of the Nazarene is accepted as normative by other mainstream Christian denominations. Groups with less mainstream Christian beliefs include the " Order Of Nazorean Essenes " - a " Buddhist Branch of Original Christianity", and the "Essene Nazorean Church of Mount Carmel" - an "Esoteric Spiritual Order of the B'nai-Amen Temple", and "Netzari Judaism". Various other small groups, including the "Congregation of Nazarenes Believing in Christ" in Hungary , with affiliates in Eastern & Western Europe, the Americas (" Apostolic Christian Church ") and Australia, "Edenic Cushite-Netzarim International/Ha' Yisrayli Torah Brith Yahad" of Shalomim Halahawi, the "Nazarene Judaism/Netzarim" of Clint Van Nest, and the "Society for the Advancement of Nazarene Judaism/Netzari Yehudim" of James Scott Trimm, while laying claim to the title "Nazarenes/Netzarim", make no claim to be Christian. Robert Graves and Joshua Podro entitled their 1953 reconstruction of the life of Jesus and the history of early 'Christianity' "The Nazarene Gospel Restored". EXTERNAL LINKS General
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