Citations:Nasiraean

English citations of Nasiræan and Nasiraean

• 1844, Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris, The Highlands of Æthiopia III, Appendix № 2: “Senkesar, or Synaxaria. The Calendar of the Æthiopic Christian Church”, the seventh month: ‘Magábit — March’, « Fasts and Festivals of Julian. March 26. / Æthiop. March xxx. », page 422:

  Gabriel, the Archangel. // Simeon, the Nasiræan // Jacob, a martyr. // Johannes.

• 1899 November, William Herbert Carruth (translator), Prof. Heinrich Grätz (author), “The Birth of Christianity: John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth” in The Open Court XIII (№ xi), № 522, ed. Dr Paul Carus, page 666:

  His followers went through his career and found in every insignificant circumstance a higher Messianic meaning; even the fact that he was not born in Bethlehem, but in Nazareth, was declared to be the fulfilment of a prophecy: “That he may be called a Nazarene (Nasiræan?)” And so his followers were convinced that Jesus the Nazarene was the Christ (Messiah).

• 1986, Dr John F. Healey (translator), Klaus Beyer (author), The Aramaic Language, Its Distribution and Subdivisions, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, “Old Aramaic”: ‘Old Western Aramaic’: « The End of Hebrew as a Colloquial », page 42, footnote 52 (begun on page 40):

  Two Hebrew ossuary inscriptions from Jerusalem (37 B. C.–70 A. D.) belong to Aramaic-speakers, as their Aramaic names show: … מרתא בת, “Martha (“the lady”) daughter of …” (Frey 1311); מרתא אמנו, “Martha our mother” (J. T. Milik, “Dominus Flevit” [→ 339], 98) and three Aramaic ossuaries give only the religious title in Hebrew, “the Nasiraean”, “the scribe” (→ 345), as a letter of Simon bar Kosiba gives his title הנסי על ישראל, “the prince over Israel” (→ 351).