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Jiang's name for James the Just's poverty-focused Jesus followers.
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Ebionites
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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The poor of Jerusalem, led by James the Just, are presented as Jewish followers of Jesus who later become the Ebionites and help develop Islam through their spread into Arabia.
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Jiang says the Ebionites, the poor Jerusalem followers of James the Just, eventually leave for Arabia and help found Islam.
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"...Jesus' brother James the Just. These people will eventually become the Ebionites. This is important for us because the Ebionites will eventually spread to..."
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"...are also poor. Okay? And the word for them is called Ebionites. And this"
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"is important because the Ebionites will eventually leave Jerusalem, where they are now, and go to Arabia, where they will help found the religion..."
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"...movement was called the Poor, or another word for this is Ebionite. Okay? Don't worry about the name, just remember the idea, okay? So..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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