If you are referring to the original Ebionite community, then I wouldn’t call them Christians. They accepted Jesus as a prophet, but rejected his divinity, rejected pagan innovations such as the virgin birth or the trinity, and believed that God required obedience to the law — not merely vicarious fulfillment of the law through some dead Jew who got hung on a tree.
I don’t believe that is correct...I also don’t think the Majority of Jews thought any other Jews should be hung on a tree....
The Essenes the Jews of Galiee, the Jews in Jordan..I think were called Follwers of the *Way*
The Jews in Corinth told Paul/Saul that some were saying they were being called Christians....
God required obedience to the law...
*However no one did*