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‖ diaspora|daɪˈæspərə|
[a. Gr. διασπορά dispersion, f. διασπείρ-ειν to disperse, f. διά through + σπείρειν to sow, scatter.]
The Dispersion; i.e. (among the Hellenistic Jews) the whole body of Jews living dispersed among the Gentiles after the Captivity (John vii. 35); (among the early Jewish Christians) the body of Jewish Christians outside of Palestine (Jas. i. 1, 1 Pet. i. 1). Hence transf.: see quots.
(Originating in Deut. xxviii. 25 (Septuagint), ἔση διασπορὰ ἐν πάσαις βασιλείαις τῆς γῆς, thou shalt be a diaspora (or dispersion) in all kingdoms of the earth.)
1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 153 [The Moravian body's] extensive diaspora work (as it is termed) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent. 1881tr. Wellhausen in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 420/1 s.v. Israel, As a consequence of the revolutionary changes which had taken place in the conditions of the whole East, the Jewish dispersion (diaspora) began vigorously to spread. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 760 s.v. Philo, The development of Judaism in the diaspora differed in important points from that in Palestine. 1889Edin. Rev. No. 345. 66 The mental horizon of the Jews of the Diaspora was being enlarged. |