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Also known as avon gilyon, gilyon, false scroll, sin scroll

Gilyonim, or avon gilyon, are terms used by the Mishnah and Talmud to refer to certain heretical works.

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Contents
  • Disputed identity
  • Rabbinic sources
  • Destruction of gilyonim
  • Avon gilyon
  • The philosopher
  • Sanctity of scrolls
  • See also
  • References
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Gilyonim, or avon gilyon, are terms used by the Mishnah and Talmud to refer to certain heretical works.

==Disputed identity== The Jewish Christians of Palestine had a Gospel of their own, the so-called Hebrew Gospel, from which still later Church Fathers quote. Matthew was, likewise, often thought to have been originally written in Hebrew (that is, Aramaic); if so, many copies must, therefore, have been in circulation, and doubts must naturally have arisen concerning the manner in which they were to be disposed of, since they contained mention of the divine name. Indeed, the correct reading in this passage has gilyon in the singular; the gnostic writings (which were sometimes called gilyonim also), however, were many; and had reference to these been intended here the plural would have been used.

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