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A similar passage is also found in Numbers Rabbah 8.2, Aboth de Rabbi Nathan A 36 (ed., Solomon Schechter, 54a), Aboth de Rabbi Nathan B 18, p. 40, and Seder Eliyahu Rabbah 18 (ed., Meir Friedmann, p. 105). Mishnat Rabbi Eliezer, p. 303, has patriarchs, converts, penitents and fearers of Heaven. In some versions of the Midrash on Psalms 118.11 a statement is added that the “Heaven Fearers” are the proselytes, but Solomon Buber, in his edition, refuses to accept this reading.

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Midrash, Mekilta de Rabbi Ishmael 18 (on Exodus 22:20).

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Siegert, “Gottesfurchtige und Sympathisanten,” pp. 110ff.

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Deuteronomy Rabbah 2.24.

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Moreover, as Wilcox (“The ‘God-Fearers’ in Acts,” p. 122, note 55) asserts, though the expression appears 17 times in the Babylonian Talmud, it nowhere seems to have any meaning other than “pious” or “devout.”