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As the early church moved away from the original cultural setting of the Bible and found its home in the west, Christians lost touch with the ancient world of the Bible. Cultural habits, the particulars of landscape, even the biblical languages soon were unknown. And the cost was enormous: Christians began reading the Bible as foreigners and missing the original images and ideas that shaped a...

(in today’s Lebanon) exploited their coastline and had the great Lebanon Mountains as a wall against Syria. The Nabateans (in today’s Jordan) took advantage of deep, cavernous valleys tucked into desert mountain ranges.
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