
#166 Justin Brierley asks Tom Wright his own personal questions
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The Importance of Studying the Bible in Its Context
I've tried to take the Bible extremely seriously, historically, in all its literary aspects. And particularly, I've tried to read the New Testament within its first century context. For me, the thing which has gone on being a stimulus and under context setter is getting to know the world of the first century Jewish world inside its Greek and Roman environment. There's been so many new things which have happened through that study, which my own background as an evangelical had not prepared me for at all.
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