Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and Recognitions
c. c. 220 – c. 380
Place: syria · coming soon
No coordinates. This node is on the timeline only.
The text is attested and survives in Greek, Latin and Syriac. Any line of influence to the Qur'an is a scholarly hypothesis.
Named scholars here are as cited in the handoff, not a new survey.
A Syrian novel about Peter and Clement that builds on Jewish-Christian sources. It teaches a 'True Prophet' who appears again and again from Adam to Jesus, honors James, and plays down Paul. That model of prophecy is often compared with the Qur'an's series of prophets confirming one message.
People named here
- Peter
- Clement of Rome
- James the Just
Where scholars disagree
For
- Patricia Crone — 'Jewish Christianity and the Qur'an' (JNES 2015–16)
- Holger Zellentin — The Qur'an's Legal Culture (2013)
- Hans-Joachim Schoeps — Theologie und Geschichte des Judenchristentums (1949), as cited in later literature
Against
- Sidney H. Griffith — 'Al-Naṣārā in the Qur'an' (2011): mainstream Syriac Christianity explains the evidence without surviving sects
Links
Text and wording
Out
Qur'an 61:6 ('a messenger after me named Ahmad') and the Paraclete
Both have a chain of prophets confirming one revelation and a figure announced by Jesus.
idea_parallel
scholarly hypothesis
Influence
In
James the Just and the Jerusalem church
The Pseudo-Clementines treat James as the supreme authority of the Jerusalem church.
influenced
attested
Report and reading
Out
Did Jewish-Christian groups survive to shape the Qur'an?
Its 'True Prophet' scheme is a key exhibit for the survival hypothesis.
evidence_for
scholarly hypothesis
Sources
- Clementine Homilies (ANF vol. 8, PD)
New Advent. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Wikipedia: Clementine literature
Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Patricia Crone, 'Jewish Christianity and the Qur'an (Part One)', Journal of Near Eastern Studies 74.2 (2015), 225–253
University of Chicago Press. Accessed 2026-11-11.