Sunday, September 14, 2014

A Room of My Own: Visual Snow Haiku

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his word gentile  stuck in my throat
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1 comment:

  1. Below is excepted from the Wikipedia entry, Gentile:

    Gentile (from Latin gentilis, by the French "gentil", feminine: "gentille", meaning of or belonging to a clan or tribe) is an ethnonym that commonly means non-Jew.[1] Other groups that claim Israelite heritage sometimes use the term to describe "outsiders."[2]

    The following Biblical passage, Matthew 10:5–6, clearly conveys this negative meaning of gentile ("Othering the Other")

    These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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