The New Testament Instruction on Race and Race Relations

Fortune that he was born a man and not a beast, a male and not a female, a Greek and not a Barbarian (cf. R. Meir (b. Men. 43b) threefold thanksgiving that he is not Gentile, brutish man or a woman). Barbarians then were prejudicially understood as wild, crude, fierce and uncivilized. This was especially true of the Scythians. ................
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