Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of
temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares
striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble other
ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of
ancient cosmology, etc..
Being in a country with peaceful kind people, monks peeking around corners when you least expect it and
striking ancient temples coupled with a brutal history that makes your heart ache took the focus of aging away and -LSB-...]