God-fearer
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
A God-fearer or Godfearer was a member of a class of non-Jewish (gentile) sympathizers to Second Temple Judaism mentioned in the Christian New Testament and other contemporary sources such as synagogue inscriptions in diaspora Hellenistic Judaism. The concept has precedents in the proselytes of the Hebrew Bible.
[edit]
See also
- Antinomianism
- Biblical law in Christianity
- Council of Jerusalem
- Early Christianity
- Fear of God
- Ger toshav
- Judaizers
- Paul the Apostle and Judaism
- Pauline Christianity
- Sabians
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "God-fearer" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.