• The biblical term "proselyte" is an anglicization of the Koine Greek term προσήλυτος (proselytos), as used in the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) for...
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  • Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Proselyte: HMS Proselyte (1780) was originally the French privateer Stanislas, built at Havre...
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  • Obadiah the Proselyte (Hebrew: עובדיה הגר), also known as Johannes of Oppido (Italian: Giovanni da Oppido) was an early-12th-century Italian convert to...
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  • becomes the host for Proselyte, the Indigo Tribe's entity of compassion. He is later discharged after Krona captures Proselyte. Thaal Sinestro (of Sector...
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    Historically, in the Koine Greek Septuagint and New Testament, the word proselyte denoted a Gentile who was considering conversion to Judaism.[citation...
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  • Below are lists of religious converts. The term proselyte is often used as a synonym for religious converts, although historically it first referred solely...
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  • French frigate Proselyte was a one-off built to a design by Charles-Louis Ducrest, and launched in 1786 at Le Havre. French Royalists handed her over...
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  • Entmemacornis proselytes is a species of snout moth. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1919. It is found in Guatemala. "GlobIZ search". Global...
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  • HMS Proselyte was a 32-gun Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate. She was the former Dutch 36-gun frigate Jason, built in 1770 at Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
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    Marc Angel writes: The Hebrew ger (in post-Biblical times translated as "proselyte") literally means "resident" and refers to a non-Israelite who lived among...
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  • Newcastle collier Ramillies in June 1804 and commissioned her as HMS Proselyte in September 1804, having converted her to a 28-gun sixth rate in July...
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  • Latin: Aquila Ponticus) was a translator of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, a proselyte, and disciple of Rabbi Akiva. Opinions differ on whether he was the same...
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    Jesus God-fearers Herodians Magi Myrrhbearers Nameless Pharisees Prophets Proselytes Sadducees Samaritans Sanhedrin Scribes Seventy disciples Shepherds Women...
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    Company. Catholic Encyclopedia: Proselyte Archived 10 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine: "The English term 'proselyte' occurs only in the New Testament...
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    earlier Jerusalem Talmud gives the subject of these stories as Aquilas the proselyte, often understood as being a person other than Onkelos. The difficulty...
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    Jesus God-fearers Herodians Magi Myrrhbearers Nameless Pharisees Prophets Proselytes Sadducees Samaritans Sanhedrin Scribes Seventy disciples Shepherds Women...
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    traditional Jewish line of proselytizing in the various synagogues where the proselytes of the gate [e.g., Exodus 20:9] and the Jews met; and only because he...
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    needed] and Martin Luther (1483–1546)[page needed] proselyte Eunuch "must be read as a proselyte (a full convert to Judaism) since Acts presents Cornelius...
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    covenant between the Israelite tribes and their God, including their proselytes, not limited to the ten commandments, nor the event when they were given...
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    on their part but their desire to rejoin the Jewish community" and "A proselyte who has become an apostate remains, nevertheless, a Jew". Karaite Judaism...
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    "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you... make one proselyte...twice as much a child of Gehenna as yourselves." Matthew 23:33, to the...
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    found in the Cairo Genizah and was written by the Normandyian Obadiah the Proselyte. These musical notes are the earliest (most ancient) musical written document...
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    impurity, as already in Jdt. 12:7; Gk. Sir. 31(34):30. The טְבִילָה of proselytes belongs to this context.', Theological dictionary of the New Testament...
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  • is said to have been a descendant of Joshua by his marriage with the proselyte Rahab (Talmud Meg. 14b; Midrash Sifre, Num. 78). The name Buzi comes from...
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  • sacrifice, was an absolutely necessary condition to be fulfilled by a proselyte to Judaism (Yeb. 46b, 47b; Ker. 9a; 'Ab. Zarah 57a; Shab. 135a; Yer. Kid...
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    Jesus God-fearers Herodians Magi Myrrhbearers Nameless Pharisees Prophets Proselytes Sadducees Samaritans Sanhedrin Scribes Seventy disciples Shepherds Women...
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    Jesus God-fearers Herodians Magi Myrrhbearers Nameless Pharisees Prophets Proselytes Sadducees Samaritans Sanhedrin Scribes Seventy disciples Shepherds Women...
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    Midrash to have been a descendant of Joshua by his marriage with the proselyte and former prostitute Rahab. Some statements found in rabbinic literature...
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    York: Anchor, 1998), pp. 243 and 350, explains the intent of the word "proselyte". Irenaeus. Adversus Haereses book I, chapter XXVI, 3; book III, chapter...
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