“Each generation of readers has brought and will bring different questions to the Bible. The answers that are found then shape the preunderstanding and questions that the following generations of readers bring to the text. As a result, each generation of readers will understand the Bible differently.” In other words, what Parris is saying is that we don’t read as contemporary interpreters in a kind of historical vacuum. We don’t read—even if in our heads we think this is what we are doing, we don’t