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Among the several religious phenomena in light of which scholars have suggested viewing the origins of Manichaeism (usually Christianity and Zoroastrianism), Judaism has been too often excluded from the discussion. Nevertheless, there are reasons to think that Jewish traditions and ideas had an influence on the emergence of this religion in the 3rd century CE. In the light of some research recently conducted by a growing number of scholars, the modest aim of this paper is to carry out a reassessment and update aimed at clarifying the relationship between two phenomena (Judaism and Manichaeism) which played such a crucial role in the discourses on heresy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the so-called 'Eunomian interpolation' contained in Pseudoclementine Recognitions (= R III 2- 11). A comparative analysis of the Syriac and Latin translations of the lost Greek text will suggest that the Syriac translator (or the author of his Greek Vorlage) tampered with the interpolation, neutralizing its radically subordinationist theological agenda and bringing its contents in line with a broadly Homoiousian perspective. After assessing the ways in which scholarship has dealt with the connections between Heteroousianism ('Eunomianism') and 'Jewish Christianity' emerging in R III 2-11 and other late ancient texts, this paper will use the rich reception history of this section to suggest that fourth-century Trinitarian debates in the Syrian region are to be set against the discursive and institutional backdrop of a Christian-Jewish continuum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]