Ebionite Jewish Community

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The Ebionite Jewish Community is a new religious movement and Internet social network created in 1995 as the culmination of a quest for the Jewishness of the historical Jesus undertaken in 1985 by American teacher Shemayah Phillips.^[1]^[2] This philo-semitic community claims to be the legitimate revivalists of the authentic views and practices of early Ebionites, a sect of Jewish disciples of Jesus which existed from the 1st to the 5th century of the Common Era.

The Ebionite Jewish Community promotes Yahwism, the recognition of Yeshua (Jesus) as a Jewish prophet (rather than as a Messiah as he is portrayed in Christian writing), and claims that Christianity is not a biblically-based religion. Ebionites actively campaign against missionary work done by Christian groups, and encourages a return to a Tanakh-reliant approach to Judaism among Messianic Jews, Hebrew Christians, Gentile Christians and others.

Modern Ebionites are neither gnostic nor dualist, but strictly monotheistic. Ebionites believe that monotheism disallows a belief in a "Satan" that competes with God. Modern Ebionitism emphasizes the social justice aspect of the Tanakh, and Yahwism as a socio-economic as well as a religious idea. They also reject membership for those involved in occupations deemed to be "exploitive."