Of course, the New Testament world shared many values that were understood but unspoken. Today these values are being studied. The advent of modern anthropology gave birth to an interdisciplinary effort to bring these academic skills to the study of the New Testament. Scholars look at the literature of the period, the archaeological remains, and even the evidence of rural village cultures for clues of how to understand the social reflexes presupposed in the Bible. For example, women were responsible
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