Early History, Early Prelates, Medieval History, Nasrani History, Persian Church, Thomas the Apostle

Dear B.George, You wrote ‘..Remember that during Jesus’ time …

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Comment posted Prelates of Nasranis till the Synod of Udayamperoor- List of early Bishops till 1599 AD by Mathai Varghese.

Dear B.George,

You wrote ‘..Remember that during Jesus’ time Synagogue worship was not in vogue in Palestine. That became a standard only after the diaspora. Under the circumstances Thomas would not have thought of Synagogues much less churches..”

I beg to disagree! Jairius was a ruler of a synagouge and his daughter was healed by Isho.
Mark 5:22 “..Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came there. Seeing Jesus, he fell at his feet..”

Isho read in the synagouge. Luke 4:16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read.

John 16:2 “..They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God..”

The Synagouge was much in vouge during Isho’s time and was since the Destruction of the Second Temple. Mar Thoma did visit North West India and I hope he visited Malabar. There is insufficient historical evidence to this but there is certainly very strong church/community belief that he did so since the past several centuries.

Pakalomattom and other ‘priestly’ families may not have been around during the first or the 5th century CE. There is some indication that these famlies have Cohen DNA but it is not conclusive. Yemenite Biblical Hebrew cantors (1000 to 500 or so years ago) are missing from pages of mordern Malabar Jewish history. Possibly these cantors were Cohens, as is the general tradition to have only Cohens as cantors (reciters of the Hebrew Scripture). Possibly these cantors becamme Nazerenes by the missionary work of the CoE. This is only a theory I have to accomadate the then and now missing cantors amongst the then local Jews. I do not expect Cohens to fade away without putting their footprints in someform as they are crucial to Jewish (Nazerene?) religious life.

The whole idea of DNA studies is not to showoff that the Nazerenes are some ‘special people’ but to re-poccess our identity to witness for Isho. Our knowledge is only for our use and not meant to be displayed to others.