{"id":2272,"date":"2016-12-02T13:41:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2016-12-02T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:41:12","slug":"getting-the-history-part-of-grammatical-historical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2016\/12\/02\/getting-the-history-part-of-grammatical-historical\/","title":{"rendered":"getting the history part of grammatical-historical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a thought that occurred to me while listening to Living History: Experiencing Great Events of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds<\/a> \u2026It is extremely helpful to Bible interpreters to have an understanding of the culture and history in which the Bible was written. This particular \u201cGreat Courses\u201d offering touches on some points of history that help us in understanding the culture the early Christians were saved from. I think that I am reading the New Testament with better understanding as a result.<\/p>\n

Even better than this course are two other offerings: Herodotus: The Father of History<\/a>, an excellent presentation by Elizabeth Vandiver and the actual work of Herodotus: The Histories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These works are full of secular misconceptions and there are sometimes misrepresentations of Biblical information contained in them. However, one thing I\u2019ve found fascinating is the Greek mindset on display. I suspect that many Greeks of the ancient world viewed their pagan superstitions cynically, yet they most likely \u201chedged their bets\u201d and went along or adopted them as a \u201ccultural practice.\u201d Nevertheless, whether true believers or no, they had a culture to overcome in coming to Christ. \u201cThe Greeks look for wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n

As we consider the preaching and teaching of the apostles in the context of the thinking of the day, we can gain insight to perhaps preaching and teaching the pagans of modernistic and post-modernistic society as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a thought that occurred to me while listening to Living History: Experiencing Great Events of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds \u2026It is extremely helpful to Bible interpreters to have an understanding of the culture and history in which the Bible was written. This particular \u201cGreat Courses\u201d offering touches on some points of history that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[116,72,133,48,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-AE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}