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Gentile (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ n t aɪ l /) is a word that today usually means someone who is not Jewish. [1] [2] Other groups that claim Israelite heritage , notably Mormons , have historically used the term gentile to describe outsiders.
Learn about Jews and Gentiles in the Bible and understand the differences. Compare the characteristics of Jews vs. Gentiles and understand their history. Updated: 02/11/2023
In the first-century world of Jesus and his apostles, we’re bound to notice a huge gap in how Jewish authors speak of “Gentiles.”. That’s because there was an actual time-leap of at least 400 years when the relationship between Jews and non-Jews became most strained.
A Gentile is one belonging to any nation or people group other than the Jewish people group. “Gentiles means nations,” according to Smith’s Bible Dictionary. The term Gentile doesn’t really describe who someone is, but rather who they are not – a Jew.
A brief but authoritative discussion of Jewish attitudes toward Gentiles in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods (“Early Judaism”), dealing with Jewish involvement in Gentile religious practices, Gentile religious practices in themselves, Jew-Gentile interactions, Gentiles in the land, ritual purity, and the status of Gentiles ...
The relations between Gentiles and Jews in the Greco-Roman world generally appear to have been characterized by relative harmony. Although reciprocal stereotyping, hostility, and prejudice indeed existed among Jews and Gentiles, there is also ample evidence of positive Gentile-Jewish social interaction, at least within some strata of ...
Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.
