(Professor Michael Willett Newheart, Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at the Howard University School of Divinity, writes for NTSW)Perhaps folks have heard the saying, "Think globally, act locally." For the NT scholar, one might paraphrase it: "Exegete locally, interpret globally." Yet I'm not even sure what that gets it. Any exegesis we do locally must be influenced by global perspectives. Facebook allows and encourages international dialogue. I know that I have much to learn about the New Testament from folks in India, China, South Africa, Indonesia, and all parts of the world. We are all myopic. We see from where we sit. How much better to sit at the table with brothers and sisters from all over the world to enjoy the fruits of the labor of all of us. Indeed, I think that the survival of the world depends on it!
i have the jewish "chabad .org toolbar"its a free download.i also read the first church,jews for JESUS,and messianic judaism.you are correct,different cultures see different things n HOLY scripture.jude v3,says struggle,for the faith of the original saints, rabbi JESUS said,GO into all the world,preach the gospel,from jerusalem,,,not the roman gospel,or american or chinese gospel.galations ch1v6,7,8,9,,,if an angel,or anyone,preaches a different gospel,than the jewish apostles preached,let him be cursed.one GOD,one faith,one baptism,1 LORD,ephesians ch4,says the jewish rabbi,apostle paul,rabbi saul
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“New Testament as the Christian Testament; the Writings of the Christian Testament, oral traditions, language used, unique features of Koine Greek, the three cultural and philosophical worlds behind the New Testament; Semitic, Hellenistic and Latin; Semitism, Hellenism and Latinism in the text; use of the Hebrew Bible in the Christian Testament, Manuscripts and the received text, translations and versions, names of the books of the New Testament, the socio-political world of the Christian Testament.”
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