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1. Originally, ‘apostasy’ (Gk. apostasía, ‘defection’) was a political concept for a rebellion against the established order. In Hellenistic Jewish literature, it was charged with religious connotations, and since then has denoted a defection from the faith. Thus, an apostate is someone who

In: The Brill Dictionary of Religion Online