Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- קהילה
- Transliteration
- kehilah
- Rejected alternatives
- עדה
Church
CRITICAL: עדה (edah, ‘congregation’) is used in the Torah specifically for the assembled community of Israel (‘adat Yisrael’); using it, or framing kehilah loosely, risks implying the Church replaces Israel as God’s people - a supersessionist reading with a painful history. Romans 11’s grafting-in metaphor (not replacement) must govern how this term is taught.
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