The More We Know . . . the More We Understand

The more accurately we understand the historical setting of 1st-century Palestine, the more precise and faithful will be our understanding of what the incarnate Word taught, did and suffered. The more we know of the Mediterranean world of Roman antiquity, more naunced will be our understanding of the ways in which the NT’s epistles summoned their readers to the conversion of the imagination

– Hays, “Reading the Bible with the Eyes of Faith”, 12