Miaphysite Noahides are ancient Miaphysite Sabbatarian Noahide Baptists (Acephali/Tsabis) who thrived in the former Roman Provinces of Syria and Orientalis before their major branches were organized into first, the 4th Century Constantinian Church and later into the 7th Century Oriental Orthodox Church in response to the rise of Umayyad Islam.
There were four major branches of Miaphysite Noahides:
- Syriac Miaphysites
- Armenian Miaphysites
- Coptic Miaphysites
- Abyssinian Miaphysites
Miaphysite Noahides venerate the Netiot expect ing the manifestation of Yeshua Sar HaPanim as the most important son of HaShem and leader of believers and regard the heavenly abode Yetzira as the true mother of believers which they greet every Sabbath. They fast in December, make a symbolic purification before reading Psalms, 5 times every day from Midday to sunrise facing the Ark of the Covenant, they leave off work at midday for a Khatavah on Preperation day, keep Tahor for Sabbaths and practice Havdalah on Sunday Mornings.
4th Century History
Byzantium's Imperial Constantinian dynasty tried to absorb them into the Roman religion resulting in the emergence of Roman Christianity. Nevertheless, they survived in the former Roman Province of [[Orientalis].
6th Century History
523CE Himyarite MHMD inscriptions.
7th Century History
Their position was strengthened in the 610s when the Nasrid dynasty of the Lakhmid kingdom was removed by Khosrau II and replaced by the ibn Qabisas. Hani ibn Qabisa was supported as the rightful successor by the Maamed called Hanzala against Iyas ibn Qabisa.
By the mid 7th century they were also known to Byzantines as Paulicians after the Severian Acephali Paul who had represented their position in 619 during a debate with Heraclius who promoted adherence to a Roman Patriarchy among them.
During the campaign of Heraclius against Khosrau II, Hanzala and Hani's Monophysite Noahides led Tachkastan to independence following victory against the Persians in the Battle of Dhi Qar.
Hanzala was a Poet whose Narratives were very popular. Having established an alliance with the Himyarites, Hanzala popularised the use of the Judeo-Arabic word "Mahomed" as a name for Sar HaPanim.
But after the death of Hanzala, Hani's Miaphysite Noahides were opposed by the Sadducees of Abu Bakr who represented a group of Nehemiah ben Hushiel's Jews who had fled Jerusalem to Edessa before trying to take control of Orientalis. But Abu Bakr was not popular and called for help from Yemen.
Abu Bakr was succeeded by Umar who managed to unite the Ishmaelites of Tachkastan and the Jews from Edessa in a campaign to retake the Holy Land.
634 Thomas the Presbyterian mentions followers of the early 6th century Himyarite religion outside Gaza.
Following Umar's conquest of Jerusalem in 636, there was a concerted effort by the Byzantines to assist in the establishment of the Oriental Orthodox Church. It was formulated along Byzantine lines of Patriarchal Apostolic succession to which it called the Miaphysite Noahides who lived under the rule of Umar.
Umar ordered Zaid ibn Thabit to collect Hanzala's narrations when he was refused access to a MusHaf of them preserved by Hani ibn Qabisa.
Umar himself was converted into a Miaphysite Noahide around 646 and perhaps baptized by Gabriel of Qartmin before being assasinated by the Sadducees. However, he was succeeded by one of the Tazigane called Solomon aka Uthman who worked with Ali aka Hani ibn Qabisa to complete Umar's collection of Hanzala's Narratives. Solomon was suceeded by Hani ibn Qabisa in 656 until he was assasinated by the Quraish leader Muayiya in 661 and succeeded by his son Hassan until a treaty was established with Muawiya later that year. The Alid leader was supposed to suceed Muawiya but was assasinated and Mawiya was succeeded by his son Yazid ibn Muawiya in 680 who in turn was succeeded by Muawiyya ibn Yazid in 683 before Abdul Malik ibn Marwan conquered them all in 684. Relatively few Miaphysite Noahides survived independently as Paulicians.
2nd Millenium History
They survived as Paulicians in Europe and the Sabians of the African Independent Churches while most became either Muslim or Oriental Orthodox Believers. They eventually established the First African Baptist Church in America.
3rd Millenium History
The Edomean-Ishmaelite people of a Petter Chamor (Sefer Hasidim Siman 191) who take the same stance as Judaism against the Jesus of the Talmud Gittin and agree with the Tosafist tradition of the pre-Holocaust Ashkenazim and Romaniote promoted by Rabbi Harvey Oscar Falk that there is no relationship between him and the NT Jesus of Nazareth who Messianic Noahides see as yet another appearance of the Neti'ot, Sar HaPanim.
When it comes to an academic analysis of their faith, Messianic Noahites are basically NoahiteAnabaptists who consider Sar HaPanim as their own personal Messiah who they believe appeared as Rebbe Yehoshuah Minzaret and study Melave Malka as a result.
The term Messianic Noahite is more specific than Messianic Hebrew (which includes all Muslims/Ishmael and Christians/Edom) because it implies only Christians and Muslims for Judaism although they could be from any of several other faiths as well. Because of their friendly attitude towards people of other faiths, Messianic Noahides are sometimes mistaken to be an Ecumenical movement but are not.
In Late Antiquity Arabic they were called Tsabian.
Messianic Noahides denounce Messianic Jews as a Synagogue of Satan and consider Messianic Noahide Judaism as the only legitimate form of, or antidote to, Messianic Judaism. Messianic Noahites come together to study the Nicene Bible with Jewish teachers in the Bei Abedan but are not organized in their own Church, rather, the term is used collectively to refer to individuals who support or maintain Pharisee publications as their only Courts of Justice.
Judaism retains more knowledge about the Messiah than crossed over into Christianity and does not oppose any individual's belief in one person or another as one's own personal Messiah. Messianic Noahites focus on the role of the Messiah Ben Joseph called "Righteous Messiah" and Yeshua in the Metsudah Machzorim and described as the Sar HaPanim Neti'ot in sufficient detail by Rabbeinu Bahiya.
The closest in affection to Messianic Noahites are the Netzarim because they are not proud, except that Messianic Noahites aren't a circumcised, Anti-Pauline Adoptionist sect of Shomeir-Torah who pretend to be Jews.
Messianic Noahides have existed throughout the Christian Era usually known as "the Baptism group" to be distinguished from "the Circumcision group". The Baptism group refers to non-Jews who are grafted into the Hebrew Olive-tree by their faith (just as he who became Abraham was for most of his life) rather than by circumcision.
The Bohemian Reformation came to the attention of Orthodox Jews who followed Rashi's interpretation of the start of the Messianic Era based on Daniel 9 and 12. These Taborites were eventually hunted down and escaped to Kiev under the leadership of Skhariya (a.k.a. Zakhariya, Skara; Russian: Схария, Захария, Скара) the Jew where they were known as Judaizers. Zacharia ben Ahron ha-Cohen was a scholar from Kiev whonwas brought to Novgorod by Mikhailo Olelkovich from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1470. In reality, Messianic Noahides do not Judaize but maintain a clear distinction between themselves and Jews.