Brian J. Capper

Nazorean

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Martin Hengel commented, in his monumental Judaism and Hellenism, that ‘It is very probable that, in addition to the Essenes and Pharisees, there were other pietistic and conventicle-like groups not established as parties’ and that these were ‘very significant for later Palestinian Judaism.’ Those who delve with Kem Luther’s scholarly and thought-provoking historical imagination may discover the importance of one such group, the Nazoreans, for understanding both Jesus and the origins of earliest Christianity.”