The Bible may be approached on several levels and at its grandest, most influential, touches on the most profound insights of life.
The Bible must also be studied in other ways, for though the values it conveys may be eternal, the lessons to be learned are expressed in texts written in ancient languages in foreign lands.
As we approach the New Testament, the story that unfolds in the Gospels and Acts is told in a Hellenistic Greek from the first and second centuries AD in the Land of Israel within a particular historical and geographical context.
It is this setting that we will discuss in this series, as we look at the people and places, as well as the cultural, religious, political and economic backgrounds of first century Israel. All of these are integral parts of the New Testament story, which cannot be properly understood without constant reference to this milieu.
The purpose of our series on the World of the Bible does not presume to uncover insights of faith or religious belief, but rather a much humbler purpose in...
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