genocides of the Holocaust and Darfur or other enormous ethical lapses to happen, are in a position to lecture ancients about their ethics or theology. In the second place, we need to bear in mind that just because a remark is a word on target for a first-century audience, and so historically and culturally conditioned, it does not follow from this fact that it is historically and culturally bound. If there is one thing that the Bible has demonstrated over and over again, it is its ability to cross