Topic summary
Galileans
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Galilean.
Other meanings
"Galileans" was also term used by some in the Roman Empire to name the followers of Christianity, called in this context as the Galilaean faith. EmperorJulian used the term in his polemic Against the Galileans, where he accuses the Galileans as being lazy, atheistic, superstitious, and their practices derivative of the Greeks. Henrik Ibsen used the term in his play Emperor and Galilean following Julian's goal of reestablishing the Roman religion and the tension between him and his own dynasty, who fictively claim Galilæan descent and relation to Jesus of Nazareth.