The Notzrim, also Nasaraioi/Nasoraean, from Hebrew נֹצְרִים or נוצרים "sentry" or "watchmen" (those who "keep safe" the original teachings), are a sect that began as a Gnostic movement during the reign of the Hasmonean queen Alexandra Helene Salome among Hellenized supporters of Rome in Judea. Pliny the Elder indicates that Nasaraioi lived not far from Apamea, in Syria in a city called Bambyx, Hierapolis or Mabog.

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  • The Notzrim, also Nasaraioi/Nasoraean, from Hebrew נֹצְרִים or נוצרים "sentry" or "watchmen" (those who "keep safe" the original teachings), are a sect that began as a Gnostic movement during the reign of the Hasmonean queen Alexandra Helene Salome among Hellenized supporters of Rome in Judea. Pliny the Elder indicates that Nasaraioi lived not far from Apamea, in Syria in a city called Bambyx, Hierapolis or Mabog. Dubourg 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 Palestine, suggests the presence of a Nasoraean current around 50 BC. They are sometimes identified as the group called "Nazorei" by Filaster, and were certainly one of the earliest key Gnostic sects. Many of the original Nasoraeans became Christians. In Modern Israeli Hebrew, the term Notzrim simply means Christians. Since the Greek word Christos is the translation of Messiah or "anointed," the Hebrew word for Christians could have been Meshikhiyim (Messianics), but ever since Talmudic days, the term Notzrim was used to deny the act that Jesus could have been the Messiah.
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  • The Notzrim, also Nasaraioi/Nasoraean, from Hebrew נֹצְרִים or נוצרים "sentry" or "watchmen" (those who "keep safe" the original teachings), are a sect that began as a Gnostic movement during the reign of the Hasmonean queen Alexandra Helene Salome among Hellenized supporters of Rome in Judea. Pliny the Elder indicates that Nasaraioi lived not far from Apamea, in Syria in a city called Bambyx, Hierapolis or Mabog.
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