The synthesis of a variety of Judaic sources demonstrates that '''Notzrim'''  (נוצרים), refers to the elagabalite "בני ישראל דברים אשר לא כן על י**ה א**יהם" (Sons of Israel were polygamous royalist Israelite Minim who did things secretly which were not right against trampled the L**D their GTorah-for-d) as described in 2 Kings 17:9 also mentioned in 2 Kings 18. The singular form is '''Notzri'''. They call themselves '''Nāṣorāyi'''. Pliny the Elder calling them '''Nazerini''' indicates<ref>Pliny the Elder, ''Natural Histories'' Book V, recopying reports drafted by Marcus Agrippa on the orders of Emperor Octavian Augustus Caesar.</ref> that they lived not far from Apamea, in Syria in a city called Bambyx, Hierapolis or Mabog. Epiphanius called them '''Nasaraeans''' in Panarion 1:18. Not much is known about the Notzrim before the 1st century BCE when Qehal while venerating the [[Pliny the ElderBaetylus]] mentioned a people called the "''Nazerini''" on Sundays. Their politics caused much strife in Israel for 30 years after their ring-leader Ben Stada was executed in 56CE for spreading Gnosticism among his ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Historia Naturalis]]'' (Book V,22).<ref>Plinii naturalis historia: Libri I-VII ed. Francesco Della Corte - 1984 "Nunc interiora dicantur. Coele habet Apameam Marsya amne divisam a Nazerinorum tetrarchia, Bambycen quae alio nomine ... In Cele si trova Apamea, divisa dalla tetrarchia dei Nazerini dal fiume Marsia, Bambice, che con altro nome..Karaite supporters in Beit Shammai."</ref>
This people has no connection to either Tertullus' description Although Notzrim came out of Paul, nor to the later 4th Century Royalists who followed the Sions ([[NazarenesNetzarim]]<ref>Ray Pritz ''Nazarene Jewish Christianity: from ) of the end House of the New TestamentDavid, in their purest form they still survive only as Mandaeans (Gnostics). The singular form is ''' 1988 p17 Notzri''Pliny's Nazerini - While treating the name of the sect, we may deal here with a short notice by Pliny the Elder which has caused some confusion among scholars. In Aramaic they call themselves '''Nāṣorāyi'''.... Can Pliny's Nazerini be early Christians? The answer depends very much on the identification of his sourcesThey divide into two sects, and on this basis the answer must be an unequivocal No. It is generally acknowledged that Pliny drew heavily on official records original Antimomians (who are not vegetarians) and most likely on those drawn up for Augustus by Marcus Agrippa their Noahized "Nomians" (d. 12 BCwho are vegetarians)who are called Nasara in Arabic and who each have their own Imam.Noahized Gnostics are considered to be the closest in affection to genuine [[31Messianic Noahides] Jones has shown that this survey was accomplished between 30 and 20 BC [32] Any connection between the Nazerini and the Nazareni must, therefore, be ruled out, and we must not attempt to line this up who are nevertheless warned against establishing any alliance with Epiphanius' Nazoraioithem. [33]" </ref>
According to the Teliya, in 86CE the Sanhedrin and Herod Agrippa II decided that it would be best if the Notzrim would fall under [[Apollyon]] so ordered [[Hakham Elijah]] ([[Rav Shimeon HaKalpus]]) to fulfil Devarim 32:21 by organising the [[Ishmaelim]] in such a way as to make the Notzrim jealous and thereby attract them away from Israel's Qehal to be subsumed into Noahide Judaism instead of allowing them to invoke HaShem's wrath by letting them continue to identify as Jews. The good intention of the Jews has been much maligned by the enemies of traditional Judaism.
 
As a result, despite its correct application, the word Notzrim soon came to be synonymous with Christians. Nevertheless, although Notzrim came out of the Royalists who followed the Sions ([[Netzarim]]) of the House of David, they originally had no connection to either Tertullus' description of Paul, nor to the later 4th Century [[Nazoraioi]].
 
=Sources=
Although Devarim 32:21 is understood to be a prophecy concerning the rise and fall of the Notzrim, they are not mentioned at that time.
==8thC.BC==
'''Notzrim''' are first named concerning the raid of Samaria during the reign of King Hoshea (759-714BC) in 2 Kings 17:9 being:
:בני ישראל דברים אשר לא כן על י**ה א**יהם
:Sons of Israel who did things secretly which were not right against the L*RD G*d.
The tower of these warlocks is also mentioned in 2 Kings 18.
 
This is probably the earliest (albeit oblique) reference to the now very well known but so-called "Great Secret" of Gnosticism whereby Gnostics exchange Israel's liberator for the Serpent of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
 
==7thC.BC==
Notzrim frequently claim identification with the Scions (Netzarim) of the House of Jesse and the watchmen of Mount Ephraim in Samaria mentioned in Jeremiah 31:16 during the reign of King Josiah (648-609BC).
 
==1stC.BC==
Not much is known about the Notzrim before the 1st century BCE when King Yanneus Alexander is also mentioned in connection with the spread of Notzrut under the doctrine of two students of Antigonus of Sokko called Sadduc and Boethus who founded the sect of the Sadducees and Boethusians to which Alexander forcibly converted the remnant of Edom. At that time, Judah ben Tabbai is hinted at as a student of Joshua ben Perachia who went to Egypt and brought back students who began to worship the Baetylus.
 
===Nazerini vs Nazareni===
 
[[Pliny the Elder]] mentioned a people called the "'''Nazerini'''" in his ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Historia Naturalis]]'' (Book V,22).<ref>Plinii naturalis historia: Libri I-VII ed. Francesco Della Corte - 1984 "Nunc interiora dicantur. Coele habet Apameam Marsya amne divisam a Nazerinorum tetrarchia, Bambycen quae alio nomine ... In Cele si trova Apamea, divisa dalla tetrarchia dei Nazerini dal fiume Marsia, Bambice, che con altro nome..."</ref> He indicates<ref>Pliny the Elder, ''Natural Histories'' Book V, recopying reports drafted by Marcus Agrippa on the orders of Emperor Octavian Augustus Caesar.</ref> that they lived not far from Apamea, in Syria in a city called Bambyx, Hierapolis or Mabog.
 
Ray Pritz (''Nazarene Jewish Christianity: from the end of the New Testament'' 1988 p17) writes:
:''Pliny's Nazerini - While treating the name of the sect, we may deal here with a short notice by Pliny the Elder which has caused some confusion among scholars. .... Can Pliny's Nazerini be early Christians? The answer depends very much on the identification of his sources, and on this basis the answer must be an unequivocal No. It is generally acknowledged that Pliny drew heavily on official records and most likely on those drawn up for Augustus by Marcus Agrippa (d. 12 BC).[31] Jones has shown that this survey was accomplished between 30 and 20 BC [32] Any connection between the Nazerini and the Nazareni must, therefore, be ruled out, and we must not attempt to line this up with Epiphanius' Nazoraioi. [33]"
 
Epiphanius called them '''Nasaraeans''' in Panarion 1:18.
 
==Talmud==
Notzrim are granted a few mentions in various Baraitas and in manuscripts of the [[Babylonian Talmud]] which are not found in the [[Jerusalem Talmud]].<ref>Yaakov Y. Teppler, Susan Weingarten ''Birkat haMinim: Jews and Christians in conflict in the ancient world'' 2007 p48 "Only in a few places is the term notzrim mentioned, and they too are on the pages of the Babylonian Talmud. The only clear mention is as follows: The rabbis said: the people of the watch used to pray for their brothers' offering to be ..."</ref>
===Babylonian Talmud===
Although Notzrim are not mentioned in older printed editions of the Talmud allegedly due to Christian censorship of Jewish presses.,<ref>Yaakov Y. Teppler,Susan Weingarten Birkat haMinim: Jews and Christians in conflict in the ancient world p48</ref> Notzrim they are clearly mentioned in Avodah Zarah 6a, Ta'anit 27b, and may be implied in other texts such as Gittin 57a.<ref>Graham Stanton, Guy G. Stroumsa ''Tolerance and intolerance in early Judaism and Christianity'' 1998 p256 "According to Pritz, Notzrim as such are explicitly mentioned only in [[Avodah Zarah]] 6a, [[Ta'anit]] 27b, and [[Gittin]] 57a. 36 The text is from Herford, Christianity in Talmud and Midrash, 171-2. 37 Herford, followed by Pritz, thinks the term in these two passages probably refers to catholic Christians."</ref>* The renowned anti-semite [[Robert Travers Herford ]] interpreted [[Avodah Zarah]] ("foreign worship") 6a.8: as against Notzrim when he said "The Notzri day, according to the words of R. Ishmael, is forbidden for ever"<ref>Christianity in Talmud and Midrash - Page 171 R. Travers Herford - 2007 "For R Tahlipha bar Abdimi said that Shemuel said: ' The Notzri day, according to the words of R. Ishmael, is forbidden for ever.' (59) b. Taan. 27b.— On the eve of Sabbath they did not fast, out of respect to the Sabbath " </ref> while in fact it says "נוצרים לדברי רבי ישמעאל לעולם אסור" which refers to trading on Sunday.
* [[Taanit]] "On fasting" 27b: "Why did they not fast on the day after the Sabbath? Rabbi Johanan said, because of the Notzrim"
====Yeshu ha Notzri====
The references to Notzrim in the Babylonian Talmud are related to the meaning and person of people called [[Yeshu Ha Notzri]] in the Talmud and [[Tosefta]].<ref>Yaakov Y. Teppler,Susan Weingarten Birkat haMinim: Jews and Christians in conflict in the ancient world p48</ref> This includes passages The references using the term ''notzri'' are restricted to the Babylon Talmud<ref>Graham Stanton, Guy G. Stroumsa ''Tolerance and intolerance in early Judaism and Christianity 1998 p256 "35 All these are from the Babylonian Talmud (Gemara): Sanhedrin 107b (twice), 103a, 43a (four times); Sola 47a;"</ref> <ref>Joshua Efrón ''Studies on the Hasmonean period'' p156</ref> and include passages such as Sanhedrin 107b which states "Yeshu haNotzri practiced magic and led Israel astray" though scholars . Scholars such as Bock (2002) consider the historicity of the event described is questionable.<ref>Darrell L. Bock Studying the historical Jesus: a guide to sources and methods 2002 p230 Sanhedrin 107b, makes a similar claim, though it alludes to an event whose authenticity is questionable: One day he [R. Joshua] ... And a Master [another major rabbi] has said, “Yeshu haNotzri practiced magic and led Israel astray . ...</ref><ref>Primary source: [publication details needed since this text has been edited] Sanhedrin 107b: What of R. Joshua b. Perahjah? — When King [[Jannaeus|Jannai]] (104-78 B.C.) slew our Rabbis, R. Joshua b. Perahjah (with his student Yeshu) fled to Alexandria of Egypt. On the resumption of peace, [[Simeon b. Shetach ]] sent to him: 'From me, the holy city, to thee, Alexandria of Egypt (my sister). My husband (the Rabbis) dwelleth within thee and I am desolate.' He arose, went, and found himself in a certain inn, where great honour was shewn him. 'How beautiful is this Acsania!' (can mean inn or female innkeeper) Thereupon (Yeshu) observed, 'Rabbi, her eyes are narrow.' 'Wretch,' he rebuked him, 'dost thou thus engage thyself.' He sounded four hundred trumpets and excommunicated him. He came before him many times pleading, 'Receive me!' But he would pay no heed to him. One day he was reciting the Shema', when Yeshu came before him. He intended to receive him and made a sign to him. He thinking that it was to repel him, went, put up a brick, and worshipped it. 'Repent,' said he to him. He replied, 'I have thus learned from thee: He who sins and causes others to sin is not afforded the means of repentance.' And a Master has said, 'Yeshu the Notzri practised magic and led Israel astray.' </ref> The Jerusalem Talmud does not use the tem Yeshu to refer to some of the same stories given in the Bavli but contains other references to Yeshu such as "Yeshu ben Pantera,."<ref>Yaakov Y. Teppler,Susan Weingarten ''Birkat haMinim: Jews and Christians in conflict in the ancient world'' p48</ref> while the references using the term ''notzri'' are restricted to the Babylon Talmud.<ref>Graham Stanton, Guy G. Stroumsa ''Tolerance and intolerance in early Judaism and Christianity 1998 p256 "35 All these are from the Babylonian Talmud (Gemara): Sanhedrin 107b (twice), 103a, 43a (four times); Sola 47a;"</ref> <ref>Joshua Efrón ''Studies on the Hasmonean period'' p156</ref> ====''Birkat haMinim'', "Curse on the Heretics"===={{main|Birkat haMinim|Minim}}Two fragments of the ''[[Birkat haMinim]]'' ("Curse on the heretics") in copies of the [[Amidah]] found in the [[Cairo Geniza]] include ''notzrim'' in the [[malediction]] against ''minim.''<ref>''Birkat haMinim: Jews and Christians in conflict in the ancient world'' ed Yaakov Y. Teppler, Susan Weingarten</ref><ref>A. J. M. Wedderburn ''A history of the first Christians'' 2004, Page 245 Cf. Maier, Zwischen den Testamenten, 288: he points out that the reference to the Notzrim is first found in medieval texts; also van der Horst, 'Birkat ha-minim'; SG Wilson, Strangers, 176-83. 8. JT Sanders, Schismatics ...</ref><ref>Herman C. Waetjen The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple 2005 p142</ref> The renowned antisemite [[R. Travers Herford|Robert T. Herford]] (1903), to concluded that ''minim'' in the Talmud and [[Midrash]] generally refers to [[Jewish Christians]].<ref>Herford ''Christianity in Talmud and Midrash'', 1903 p379 "The theory that the Minim are intended to designate Jewish Christians I regard as having been now conclusively proved. This may be otherwise expressed by saying that wherever the Talmud or the Midrash mentions Minim, the authors of the statement intend to refer to Jewish Christians"</ref>
===Mandaeans===
Bernard Duborg (1987) dates Pliny's source between 30 and 20 BCE and, accounting for the lapse of time required for the installation in Syria of a sect born in Israel/Judea, suggests the presence of a Nasoraean current around 50 BCE. Dubourg connects Pliny's ''Nazerini'' with early Christians.<ref>B. Dubourg, L'Invention de Jesus, Gallimard Paris 1987, II, p. 157.</ref> This identifies them with the Jewish traditions about Rav Joshua ben Perachiya's student who turned to the worship of the Baetylus with the Elagabalites among whom he established the [[Mandaeans]] of Jordan according to the Kuzari.
[[John the Baptist]] made great efforts to correct Ha-Notzri's Elagabalite Baptists and became very popular with them but in the end his message was corrupted. They say that he was taught by Adam Kadmon (Qadmayya)'s Essence (the Son of the Man who is in Heaven) i.e. the tripartite Uthra (Archangel) of the Notzrim consisting of Abel (Hibil), Seth (Šitil) and Enosh (Anuš).
The Mandaeans of Iraq use the term "[[Nasorean]]" in their history, the [[Haran Gawaitha]], to describe their origins in, and migration from Jerusalem: "And sixty thousand Nasoreans abandoned the Sign of the Seven and entered the Median Hills, a place where we were free from domination by all other races."...<ref>Karen L. King ''What is Gnosticism?'' 2005 Page 140</ref>
===''Toledot Yeshu'', "History of Yeshu"===
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The medieval rabbinical text ''[[Toledoth Yeshu]]'' is a polemical account of the origins of Christianity which connects to the "notzrim" "watchmen" (Jeremiah 31:16) of Samaria. The ''Toledot Yeshu'' identifies the leader of the "notzrim" during the reign of [[Alexander Jannaeus]] as a rebellious student mentioned in the [[Baraitas]] (traditions outside the Mishnah) as "[[Yeshu|Yeshu ha-Notzri]]".{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} Yeshu ha-Notzri is depicted as living ''circa'' 100 BCE.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mama.indstate.edu/users/nizrael/jesusrefutation.html|title=Refuting Missionaries|author=Hayyim ben Yehoshua|accessdate=2008-04-12}}</ref> According to the ''Toledot Yeshu'' the Notzrim flourished during the reign of the [[Hasmonean]] queen [[Salome Alexandra|Alexandra Helene Salome]] among [[Hellenized]] supporters of [[Rome]] in [[Judea]].<ref>Goldstein, M. Jesus in the Jewish Tradition, Macmillan 1950 (pp. 148-154 Toledot Y.S.W.)</ref> ===''Birkat haMinim'', "Curse on the Heretics"==={{main|Birkat haMinim|Minim}}Two fragments of the ''[[Birkat haMinim]]'' ("Curse on the heretics") in copies of the [[Amidah]] found in the [[Cairo Geniza]] include ''notzrim'' in the [[malediction]] against ''minim.''<ref>''Birkat haMinim: Jews and Christians in conflict in the ancient world'' ed Yaakov Y. Teppler, Susan Weingarten</ref><ref>A. J. M. Wedderburn ''A history of the first Christians'' 2004, Page 245 Cf. Maier, Zwischen den Testamenten, 288: he points out that the reference to the Notzrim is first found in medieval texts; also van der Horst, 'Birkat ha-minim'; SG Wilson, Strangers, 176-83. 8. JT Sanders, Schismatics ...</ref><ref>Herman C. Waetjen The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple 2005 p142</ref> The renowned antisemite [[R. Travers Herford|Robert T. Herford]] (1903), to concluded that ''minim'' in the Talmud and [[Midrash]] generally refers to [[Jewish Christians]].<ref>Herford ''Christianity in Talmud and Midrash'', 1903 p379 "The theory that the Minim are intended to designate Jewish Christians I regard as having been now conclusively proved. This may be otherwise expressed by saying that wherever the Talmud or the Midrash mentions Minim, the authors of the statement intend to refer to Jewish Christians"</ref>
===Alawaites===
Pritz, following Dussaud, connects Pliny's 1st century BCE Gnostic Nazerini, to the 9th century CE Gnostic [[Nusairi]]s.{{citation needed|date=June 2011}}
===Medieval usage===
The term "Notzrim" continued to be used of "Christians" in the medieval period. [[Hasdai Crescas]], one of the most influential Jewish philosophers in the last years of Muslim rule in Spain,<ref>The ''Columbia History of Western Philosophy'' p204 ed. Richard H. Popkin, Stephen F. Brown, David Carr - 2005 "In the last century of Jewish life in Spain, the three most influential Jewish philosophers were without doubt Rabbi [[Hasdai Crescas]] (ca. 1340-1410/1411), Rabbi [[Joseph Albo]] (d. after 1433), and Rabbi [[Isaac Abrabanel]] (1437-1508)."</ref> wrote a refutation of Christian principles in Catalan which survives as ''Sefer Bittul 'Iqqarei ha-Notzrim'' (''Refutation of Christian Principles'').<ref>History of Jewish Philosophy p551 ed. Daniel H. Frank, Oliver Leaman - 2004 "translation of Joseph ibn Shem Tov who entitled it Sefer Bittul 'Iqqarei ha-Notzrim (Refutation of Christian Principles)."</ref>
===Modern Hebrew usage===
Thanks to the infestation of Christianity with the followers of a Notzri called Yeshu HaNotzri, the words Notzri & Notzrim have become the [[modern Hebrew]] standard term for "Christian" and "Christians".<ref>"Christian adj. n. נוצרי " (''Notzri'') ''The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary'' (9780198601722) 1999 p.69; ''The New Bantam-Megiddo Hebrew & English Dictionary'', Dr. Sivan Reuven, Dr. Edward A. Levenston, 2009 p.50; [[Ben Yehuda]]'s Hebrew Dictionary, 1940 reprint, p.450</ref> Hence, Notzrim is an alternative term, used to translate the [[Greek (language)|Greek]] ''Christianoi'' in many [[Bible translations into Hebrew|translations of the New Testament into Hebrew]], and distinguished from '''Meshiykhiyyim''' "Messianics" (משיחיים).<ref>United Bible Societies Hebrew New Testament, 1997 printing, based on the [[BFBS]] New Testament of [[Franz Delitzsch]]: Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, 1 Peter 4:16.</ref>
In [[Modern Hebrew]], the word "Notzrim" (נוצרים) is the standard modern word for [[Christians]], but ''Meshiykhiyyim'' ('''משיחיים'') is used by many Christians of themselves, as in the BFBS New Testament of [[Franz Delitzsch]]; 1 Peter 4:16 "Yet if any suffer as ha-Meshiykhiyyim ('''משיחיים'''), let them not be ashamed, but let them glorify God in that name."<ref>BFBS [http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/ipb-e/nthebrew/1peter.pdf Delitszch translation 1 Peter pdf]</ref><ref>example: The Christian Church, Jaffa Tel-Aviv website article in Hebrew יהודים משיחיים - יהודים או נוצרים? </ref> In the Hebrew New Testament [[Tertullus]]' use of "Nazarenes" (Acts 24:5) is translated '''"Notzrim"''', and "Jesus of Nazareth" is translated "Yeshu ha Notzri".<ref>United Bible Societies Hebrew New Testament, 1997 printing, based on the [[BFBS]] New Testament of [[Franz Delitzsch]]: Acts 24:5</ref>
==Possible relation to other groups==
Notzrim frequently claim identification with the Scions (Netzarim) of the House of Jesse, the watchmen of Mount Ephraim in Samaria (Jeremiah 31:16) called Nasara in Arabic.
== See also ==
* [[Ebionites]]* [[Jewish Christians]]* [[KabbalistsDositheus]]
* [[Ophites]]

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