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Originally Posted by Praxeas
When I said "western" I didn't mean the modern term "western culture", rather I meant the difference between Roman/Greek and Semitic cultures
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At the time of Jesus, Hellenism was the predominant culture. Cultures were pretty well syncretized at that time. But in the flow of human history, and conceiving the "thought life" it was pretty well Eastern. This describes the writers and their audience.
The distance between us and them is vast! I think one of the biggest struggles in interpretation is that many readers don't really realize just how vast it is.
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