Tom,
On Christian sources (gradual) co-opting of Philo's Therapeutae as a
description of Christian monastics, see generally D. Rudin's _Philo in Early
Christian Literature: A Survey_ (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), as
well as Rudin's _Philo and the Church Fathers_ (Leiden: EJ Brill, 1995).
I don't know the MSS witnesses on Jeremiah - way out of my field - but
Dierk is right on Hegesippus as an early CE witness on the Rechabites.
Best regards,
Russell Gmirkin
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