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Definition of Elcesaite

Elcesaite
Elcesaite El*ce"sa*ite, n. [From Elcesai, the leader of the sect.] (Eccl.) One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.

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- The Elcesaites, Elkasaites, Elkesaites or Elchasaites were an ancient Jewish Christian sect in Lower Mesopotamia, then the province of Asoristan in the...
- James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
- parents were members of the Jewish Christian Gnostic sect known as the Elcesaites. Mani composed seven works, six of which were written in the late-Aramaic...
- other. Other sects mentioned are the Carpocratians, the Cerinthians, the Elcesaites, the fourth century Nazarenes and the Sampsaeans, most of whom were Jewish...
- James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
- (now Hamadan, Iran), was a member of the Jewish Christian sect of the Elcesaites. His mother was of Parthian descent (from "the Armenian Arsacid family...
- Hypsistarianism Magarites Merkabah mysticism Messianic sects Ebionites Elcesaites ****rite Okbarites Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism) Sabbateans...
- James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
- James the Just Simeon of Jerusalem Jude Paul Ancient groups Ebionites Elcesaites Nazarenes Recent groups Hebrew Christian movement Messianic Judaism Hebrew...
- (216–276). Mani's father was a member of the Jewish Christian sect of the Elcesaites, a subgroup of the Gnostic Ebionites. At ages 12 and 24, Mani had visionary...