Senecas of Jerusalem was a 2nd century Jewish Christian bishop of Jerusalem.The History of the church in Jerusalem.
According to Eusebius of Caesarea, there were thirteen bishops of Jerusalem between the fall of the Second Temple and the Bar Kokhba revolt. All were Jewish ChristiansHistoria Ecclesiastica, IV, v." and he was 10th on that list. He is also mentioned in the Epistle of James to Quadratus.Richard Bauckham, Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church (Bloomsbury Publishing, 29 Jan. 2015) p 73.
Some scholarsvan den Broek (1988) 58 (10) have suggested that he was not a bishop but rather a presbyter assisting James the first Bishop,Richard Bauckham, Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church (Bloomsbury Publishing, 29 Jan. 2015) p 73-74. though this is controversial.
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