Ebionites or the Essenes were not the zealots. The zealots were a specific, well known, Jewish political group. The Essenes isolated themselves from society, the zealots emerged themselves in society and actively participated in violent rebellions.

Zealots:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zealot

https://www.worldhistory.org/Zealots/

Different Jewish Sects: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/pharisees-sadducees-and-essenes#:~:text=A%20third%20faction%2C%20the%20Essenes,of%20the%20Bible%20used%20today.

Information on the Ebionites: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/wace/biodict.html?term=Ebionism%20and%20Ebionites#:~:text=In%20common%20with%20the%20Ebionites,inferior%20to%20their%20own%20gospel .

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ebionites

Eusebius on the Ebionites: https://catholiclibrary.org/library/view?docId=/Fathers-EN/EusebiusofCaesarea.EcclesiasticalHistory.en.html;query=ebionite;chunk.id=00000093

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.viii.xxvii.html

The heresy of the Ebionites. https://biblehub.com/library/pamphilius/church_history/chapter_xxvii_the_heresy_of_the.htm

Nazareth population: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Nazareth#google_vignette

Ethnos in Greek: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g1484/kjv/tr/0-1/

Thomas in India: https://www.gotquestions.org/Thomas-India.html

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Gospel of Thomas Info and why it’s not in the Bible: https://www.bartehrman.com/gospel-of-thomas/

https://ehrmanblog.org/the-gospel-of-thomas-and-the-other-gospels/

https://www.wesleyhuff.com/blog/2020/9/22/why-i-date-the-gospel-of-thomas-late

https://spckpublishing.co.uk/thomas-and-the-gospels

Multitude of Dating and why it’s not in the Bible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDQ0w_f5P2s&t=3s

Read The Gospel of Thomas here: https://www.marquette.edu/maqom/Gospel%20of%20Thomas%20Lambdin.pdf

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-christianity-came-to-india-kerala-180958117/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle#CITEREFFahlbuschBromileyLochmanMbiti2008

36 Righteous one’s info: scroll to sdq for Tzadik: https://ahdictionary.com/word/semitic.html#ṣbr

Sukkah 45b: https://www.sefaria.org/Sukkah.45b?lang=bi

What is Midrash? https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/midrash-101/

Alleged book burning campaign info: book burning http://www.bede.org.uk/literature.htm

Pope Damasus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Damasus_I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_book-burning_incidents#:~:text=The%20books%20of%20Arius%20and,catholics%3B%20that%20all%20others%20should

I don’t like using Wikipedia, but you can use this as a springboard to search deeper

Hegesippus is not a Heretic whose books were burned by the Catholic church: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07194a.htm

More info on Recognitions of Clement: Recognitions of Clement: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.vi.iii.i.html#:~:text=The%20Recognitions%20of%20Clement%20is%20a%20kind%20of%20philosophical%20and%20theological%20romance .

Read Recognitions of Clement: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0804.htm

Oxford: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195393361/obo-9780195393361-0306.xml

Britannica - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Clementine-literature

Antiquities of the Jews - Book XX

Saulus is not Paul. Check the Dates - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-20.html

Go to Antiquities book 20-chapter 9 section 4 to see Saulus. Then go to section 2. You see the year that Josephus is discussing, and that year is 62 AD. So, this Saulus guy was causing all these problems in 62 AD. That’s almost 30 years after Paul’s conversion on the rode to Damascus.

Essenes were collaborating with King Herod.

Go to book 15 Chapter 10

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-15.html

Was Paul a Herodian?

Romans 16:11 English translations: https://biblehub.com/romans/16-11.htm

All of romans 16: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2016&version=NIV

Romans 16:11 Greek - https://biblehub.com/interlinear/romans/16-11.htm

Paul is a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin. Here are the verses where Paul identifies himself as being from the tribe of Benjamin:

Romans 11:1

“I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.”
Philippians 3:5

“Circumcised the eighth day; of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; regarding the law, a Pharisee;”