I found the presentations to be really helpful in understanding the context of the literature that we are reading. Learning of the fables that influenced the stories and the areas geographical structure is really interesting and makes the stories a little bit easier to understand. This approach to understand ing the stories is better than going into them with little to no knowledge of what’s happening during the time it was written. Now understanding the context of the different stories of jesus’ crucifixion makes it easier to compare and contrast each story, unlike before when I had very little understanding of what was happening in the old testament.
Nick