packing our equipment in preparation for a visit to this strange land of the NT, for it is here in the engagement with these texts that we find ourselves truly at home. “Method” has to do with any of a range of interpretive strategies with which one might engage a text. In recent years, many students of the Bible have learned to catalogue these in terms of where each locates meaning in relation to the biblical text. Three (rather obvious) options have emerged: • behind the text • in