opposed terms am and gojim (“people” and “Gentiles”). The biblical question “Who is my neighbor?” is concerned with this very problem. The particular quality of Old Testament religion colored the problem in a special way. For the individual, a brother was one who belonged with him in the unity not of just any people, but of the unique Chosen People of God. That meant that brotherhood did not depend merely on common racial descent, but on common election by God. It was a brotherhood in which it was