can mean the zipper on one’s pants. The context plays a crucial part in understanding the meaning. But how do we determine the cultural understanding of words and concepts that are over 2,000 years old? We can’t travel through time, so we examine both biblical references and some extrabiblical accounts written during that period of time. Because they lacked the litany of thought-logging tools that we have at our disposal today, the ancient followers of God committed themselves to memorizing teachings