Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- 異邦人
- Transliteration
- ihoujin
- Rejected alternatives
- 外人
Gentiles
Avoid casual 外人 (gaijin, ‘outsider/foreigner’), which risks reinforcing Japan’s strong insider/outsider (内・外, uchi-soto) social framework as the operative category, when Romans’ Jew/Gentile distinction is a specific redemptive-historical category, not a generic ethnic-insider one.
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