Ancient Letter Writing & New Testament Epistles

This reading was kind of boring for me, there wasn’t a lot that caught my attention or interested me. I do think its good to know how to interpret letters in the bible. Although a lot of these letters are just random and we don’t know what came before or after them. So there may have been a conversation that we know nothing about and are just reading one part of the whole story. I feel that you have to kind of take and read these with a grain of salt because of that fact. Although the letters are in the bible for a reason so we know there is a lesson or something in each of the letters.  But also just like most things in the bible we have to know the historical context to funny understand what is going on and who they were writing to and what they were writing for. Just like all the other chapters so far I like how they have a page to explain how to interpret that part of the bible.  I like how Cosby used one of his own letters as an example, but to really be able to figure out whose letter that was you need to have context and there were many clues throughout the book just like you can find context with the letters throughout the bible.