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Definition of Elcesaites

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...
- other. Other sects mentioned are the Carpocratians, the Cerinthians, the Elcesaites, the fourth century Nazarenes and the Sampsaeans, most of whom were Jewish...
- Hillel and Shammai Hypsistarianism Magarites 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...
- Sabians in southern Mesopotamia who are identified with the Mandaeans or Elcesaites.: 35  Al-Biruni (writing at the beginning of the eleventh century CE)...
- have posited both genetic and ritual-custom similarities between the Elcesaites and the earlier Second Temple Jewish sect of the Essenes (Essaioi "Saints")...
- Cerinthians Adamites (also called Adamians) Marcellianas Cleobians Docetae Elcesaites Encratites Apotactics (also called Apostolics) Severians Marcosians Messalians...
- 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...