Posted by Derrick
on January 19, 2008, 4:21 pm, in reply to "Re: 90 C.E. Nazarenes Cast out of the Synagogues"
69.150.191.212
What about the older copy that was found that read the following. It reads the Nazarenes and the Minim. This was in the second part of what i posted, but who is to say it is authentic.
However an old copy of the Birkat haMinim found at the Cairo Genizah reads:
For the renegades let there be no hope,
and may the arrogant kingdom soon be rooted out in our days,
and the Nazarenes and the Minim perish as in a moment
and be blotted out from the book of life
5 All of these alternate readings are given in the footnotes of the Hebraic Roots Version NT and are
discussed in the HRV Introduction).
6 See Biblical Archaeology Review; May/June 1990 “Church of the Apostles Found on Mount Zion” by
Bargil Pixner
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and with the righteous may they not be inscribed.
Blessed are you, O L-rd, who humbles the arrogant.
This benediction was in the form of a curse on the Nazarenes which would have the
effect of casting them out of the Pharisaic synagogues (see Jn. 16:2) since Nazarenes who
attended would be expected to recite a curse upon themselves. As Epiphanius records in
the fourth century:
Not only do Jewish people have a hatred of them;
they even stand up at dawn, at midday, and toward evening,
three times a day when they recite their prayers in the synagogues,
and curse and anathemize them. Three times a day they say,
"G-d curse the Nazarenes." For they harbor an extra grudge
against them, if you please, because despite their Jewishness,
they proclaim that Yeshua is Messiah...
(Epiphanius Panarion 29)
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