A leadership rule preserved in Acts makes presence at the Jordan under Yohanan ha-Matbil the threshold qualification for a seat among the Twelve, which means the senior cadre of Yehoshua's movement came out of the Immerser's camps rather than off the Galilean shore. Once that personnel question stands on its own evidence, the wilderness vocabulary saturating the Fourth Gospel stops looking like literary borrowing and starts looking like native speech, which makes the Johannine corpus the last surviving record of how that milieu talked.
A consolidated portrait of Paul through Ebionite eyes: the Fish of the Great Sea, formed in philosophical Tarsus and trained in Gamaliel's academy, adjudicated a false prophet on four constitutional grounds by the community that knew him best. The verdict stands, and yet the handful of true sentences in his letters belongs to the Covenant tradition whose vocabulary they were written in, and reclaiming them is not generosity toward Paul but repatriation.
A letter to the American Christian whose covenant identity has fused with civic-national identity. Five movements: what we are looking at, how far it has drifted from the Word, the human hungers that produced the drift, the institutional machinery that exploited the hungers, and the true restoration that goes around every mediator and addresses the Father directly. The seed for the forthcoming Born Again Patriot book.