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