Isaiah Shembe

Isaiah Shembe (* 1867, † 1935 also: Isaia Shembe ) was a which originate from the mission Christianity Zulu prophet, healer, and church founder. He began as a lay preacher and later built a church on. Shembe saw himself as the true and only followers of Jesus and was revered by many of his followers as a god. His ( Holy ) scriptures were translated by Hans -Jürgen pool and Londa Shembe into English and edited by Irving Hexham.

Nazareth Baptist Church

Called The Church founded in 1910 by Isaiah Shembe Nazareth Baptist Church, also The Nazarite Church, AmaNazarites or Shembe Church, is the oldest independent African Indigenous Church in South Africa.

It has about one million members in KwaZulu- Natal and Inanda.

Since the death of Bishop Johannes Galilee Shembe in 1976 it was divided into two groups. The larger group was led by Bishop Amos Shembe until his death in 1996, while Rt Rev. Londa Shembe led the smaller group

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Works

• Irving Hexham, ed, Hans -Jürgen pool, and the Rt Rev. Londaukosi iNsiKayakho Shembe, translators, with introductory essay by GC Oosthuizen, The Scriptures of the amaNazaretha of Ekuphakameni, Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 1994
• Irving Hexham amd G. C. Ooshuizen, eds, translated by Hans -Jürgen pool, The Story of Isaiah Shembe: . History and Traditions Centered on Ekuphakameni and Mount Nhlangakazi, Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 1996
• Irving Hexham amd G. C. Ooshuizen, eds, translated by Hans -Jürgen pool, The Acts of the Nazaretha. Oral Tradition and the Early History of the People of Shembe, Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 1999
• Irving Hexham amd G. C. Ooshuizen, eds, translated by Hans -Jürgen pool, The Sun and the Moon. Oral Testimony and the Sacred History of the Ama- Nazarites Under the leadership of Johannes Galilee Shembe and Amos Shembe, Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, in press.