Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- Bangsa bukan Yahudi
- Transliteration
- BAHNG-sah BOO-kahn yah-HOO-dee
- Rejected alternatives
- kafir (unbeliever/infidel, an Islamic religious-legal category with strong, actively contested pejorative force in contemporary Malay/Indonesian religious discourse)
Gentiles
Bangsa bukan Yahudi (‘peoples who are not Jewish’) is the ethnically neutral Bible term. Kafir carries a very strong and, in recent years, publicly contested pejorative charge and would import an entirely different, religiously loaded boundary line than Paul’s Jew/Gentile distinction.
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