Godfearers

Godfearers

The term Godfearers (from Greek θεοφοβείς, or φοβουμενοι τον θεον and Neo-Persian: Tarsàkàn) are non-Jews who attached themselves in varying degrees to Judaism without becoming full-blown proselytes referred to in the biblical Book of Acts. [ [http://www.journalofbiblicalstudies.org/Issue10/Godfearer.pdf Journal of Biblical Studies: Godfearer, by J. Brian Tucker] : "The traditional understanding of God-fearers, i.e. F.F. Bruce, “God-fearers were Gentiles who attached themselves in varying degrees to the Jewish worship and way of life without as yet becoming full proselytes.”"]

References

ee also

*Early Christianity
*Council of Jerusalem
*Pauline Christianity
*Antinomianism
*Mithraic Mysteries


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