Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- Millətlər
- Transliteration
- mil-lat-LAIR
- Rejected alternatives
- kafirlər (unbelievers/infidels, an Islamic religious-legal category), bütpərəstlər (idolaters, archaic)
Gentiles
Millətlər (‘nations,’ i.e. non-Jews) is the ethnically neutral Bible term. Kafirlər would import an entirely different, religiously charged Islamic boundary line rather than Paul’s Jew/Gentile distinction.
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