Gnostic Baptists have existed in "Arabia Haeresium Ferax" since the 1st century AD. Arabic is one of the tongues used in Acts 2:11 and Gamaliel's student St Paul of Tarsus himself (complemented by [[Yaakov Emden on Noahides|Jacob Emden]]) went to preach among the disciples of John the Baptist in the Arabah. According to the [[Category:Tosafists Approach|Tosafist approach]] of Rabban [[Rabbi Harvey Falk]] these would have been Messianic Noahite students of Kabbalah. He suggests that the Jewish teachers of such Noahites would have been called Av or "Father" in English.
The earliest reference to these Baptists as a distinct sect from Christians is by the word Sobiai (Sabians) from whom the Elcesaite Jews and subsequent Antisemitic Manicheans emerged. Antisemitic Mandeans are also sometimes considered to be related.
===Targum Musalamai===
Concerning the term "Muslim" which means "submitter", it should be noted that in the Torah, everywhere the word "Kenite" is used, it is translated to Aramaic by [[Rabbi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkelos Onkelos]] as Salamai or Muslamai or Musalamai. Some suggest this refers to the great numbers of non-Jewish believers who came to sacrifice the Qurban Shlamim in Jerusalem together with the Jews indicating an origin as Gerim from Herodian Times.