Jacob the heretic is the name given to a 2nd century heretic (Hebrew min) whose doings were used as examples in a few passages of the Tosefta and Talmud to illustrate laws relating to dealing with heresy (minut). In several manuscripts his heresy is indicated as Christianity.
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“As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)