community
Beroea (Nazarene community)
Aleppo, Syria · Jewish-Christian groups
36.199, 37.163
Hostile source. Epiphanius is hostile. Jerome is descriptive here but elsewhere calls the Nazarenes neither true Jews nor true Christians.
Attested. Two 4th-century writers independently name Beroea. How much Jerome actually saw of the Hebrew Gospel he describes is debated.
Epiphanius lists Beroea in Coele-Syria as a home of the Nazoraeans. Jerome writes that the Nazarenes of Beroea used a Hebrew Gospel of Matthew and that he had a copy described to him there. This is one of the few city-level locations given for a Torah-keeping Jesus group in the late 4th century.
People and groups named here
- Nazarenes/Nazoraeans of Beroea
- Jerome
- Epiphanius
Sources
- Jerome, De viris illustribus 3 (Nazarenes of Beroea and the Hebrew Matthew)
Jerome, tr. E. C. Richardson, NPNF2 vol. 3 (1892), public domain; New Advent. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Nazarene (sect) (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Pleiades place 658409: Beroia
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
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