A follower of the Judaic sect that St Paul persecuted and then used as source material for his own Christianity. Little is known about it other than its close relationship to both the Zealots, Essenes and Jewish Gnosticism and its militant anti-Roman stance. It sems to have had to factions that of Rabbi Issua (Jesus) and that of the Zadok Johan (John the Baptist). Ironically it was later regard as a Christian heresy