The Gospel of the Ebionites and Jewish-Christian Gospel Taxonomy

Record summary

The Gospel of the Ebionites is known primarily through quotations and descriptions in Epiphanius, who associated it with an ascetic Jewish-Christian group. Its reported features include a modified gospel sequence, a vegetarian emphasis and a distinctive account of Jesus’s baptism. Modern scholarship used the material to reassess how heresiological authors categorized Jewish-Christian communities and whether several named gospels were actually distinct. The lead supports comparison of textual memory and polemical transmission, but the original text, community identity and extent of reconstruction remain uncertain.