Neither Yavne nor Antioch: Recovering Nazarean Judaism

When Rome flattened Judea in the late first and early second centuries of the Common Era, Rabbinic Judaism regrouped and reorganized at the Academy in Yavne, Greek-speaking, gentile proto-orthodox Christianity headquartered in Antioch, Syria, and the Nazareans, the original, Jewish and "God-fearer," Hebraically minded "Followers of the Way," escaped to Pella.

Rejected by both the rabbis and the bishops, the Nazareans have often had to go underground, but they have never gone extinct. They ha...