1986 Annual Meeting
Neolithic statues, God-fearers and a political candidate amidst the maelstrom
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Footnotes
See Robert S. MacLennan and A. Thomas Kraabel, “The God-Fearers—A Literary and Theological Invention,” BAR 12:05; Robert F. Tannenbaum, “Jews and God-Fearers in the Holy City of Aphrodite,” BAR 12:05; and Louis H. Feldman, “The Omnipresence of the God-Fearers,” BAR 12:05.
God-fearers are generally considered semi-Jews who frequented the synagogues, professed monotheism, observed many, though not all, Jewish religious laws, but did not convert. They are referred to several times in the New Testament and are commonly thought to have provided some of the earliest and most important converts to Christianity.