Ancient Jewish Christian sect in Sassanid southern Mesopotamia
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The Elcesaites, Elkasaites, Elkesaites or Elchasaites were an ancient Jewish Christian sect in Lower Mesopotamia, then the province of Asoristan in the Sasanian Empire that was active between 100 and 400 CE. The members of this sect, which originated in the Transjordan, performed frequent baptisms for purification and had a Gnostic orientation.[1][2]: 123 [3]
The name of the sect derives from the alleged founder, Elkhasaí (Koinē Greek: Ἠλχασαΐ in Hippolytus), Elksai (Ἠλξαί in Epiphanius), or Elkesai (Ελκεσαΐ in Eusebius, and Theodoret).
The Elcesaites, Elkasaites, Elkesaites or Elchasaites were an ancient Jewish Christian sect in Lower Mesopotamia, then the province of Asoristan in the...
other. Other sects mentioned are the Carpocratians, the Cerinthians, the Elcesaites, the fourth century Nazarenes and the Sampsaeans, most of whom were Jewish...
James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
have posited both genetic and ritual-custom similarities between the Elcesaites and the earlier Second Temple Jewish sect of the Essenes (Essaioi "Saints")...
James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
Sabians in southern Mesopotamia who are identified with the Mandaeans or Elcesaites.: 35 Al-Biruni (writing at the beginning of the eleventh century CE)...
James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
parents were members of the Jewish Christian Gnostic sect known as the Elcesaites. Mani composed seven works; six of which were written in the late-Aramaic...
James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
(216–276). Mani's father was a member of the Jewish Christian sect of the Elcesaites, a subgroup of the Gnostic Ebionites. At ages 12 and 24, Mani had visionary...
In Kabbalah, Adam Kadmon (אָדָם קַדְמוֹן, ʾāḏām qaḏmōn, "Primordial Man") also called Adam Elyon (אָדָם עֶלִיוֹן, ʾāḏām ʿelyōn, "Most High Man"), or Adam...
James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
in his teachings. Mani grew up in a Judeo-Christian community of the Elcesaites and had contact with other Christian groups, such as the Bardesanists...
parents were members of the Jewish Christian Gnostic sect known as the Elcesaites. Mani believed that the teachings of Buddha, Zoroaster, and Jesus were...
Council of Nicaea in 325. Adamites Arianism Ebionites Collyridianism Elcesaites Marcionism Montanism Nazarenes Novatianism Ophites Unlike the previously...
James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
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