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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...

sheep and danger and fight to the death (10:15, 17–18). It is this mortal combat, this willingness to stand firm in the brink, that sets the noble shepherd apart from every other. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away” (10:11–12). The motif of the wilderness expressed one central truth: the
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