Gentiles, Jewish and Christian attitudes towards

Abstract

The term “Gentile” has come to be a generic term for non-Jews, but in its ancient origins it was a more elastic term that was used to define the “other” in whatever form or shape that took in many different biblical, Jewish, and Christian contexts. Keywords: anti-Semitism; assimilation and exclusion; Christianity; cultural history; deviance and social control; Judaism; Late Antiquity; nations and peoples; race and ethnicity; religious history