Are the Jews alone referred to as the People of the Book in Allah’s saying: "Do you then hope that they would believe in you, though a party of them used to hear the Word of Allah and then intentionally change it after they had understood it?" (Al-Baqarah: 75), or does the term include both Jews and Christians?
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The verse is in the context of discussing the Jews and the Christians, who are People of the Book, and each group is distinct from the other.
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