Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- Injili
- Transliteration
- Injili
- Rejected alternatives
- habari njema (acceptable as an explanatory gloss only)
Gospel
Injili is the established Union Version term (from Arabic/Greek euangelion via Injil). Risk: Islamic theology holds that Allah gave Isa (Jesus) a scripture called al-Injil which Muslims believe was subsequently lost or corrupted (the tahrif doctrine); Muslim-background or coastal readers may hear ‘Injili’ through this lens as referring to a superseded or corrupted text rather than the trustworthy canonical Gospel. This must be addressed explicitly, not assumed away.
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