To Read the Bible Is To Enter Its World

 "To read the Bible is to enter into its world, at least momentarily, a world dominated by the word of God that address us, and by the God who awaits our response. Where are we? What world—what story, what text—do we readers inhabit? To think theologically about the process of reading the Bible is to see reading itself as taking place on holy ground, an event of divine address and human answerability." 

—Kevin Vanhoozer, Mere Christian Hermeneutics, 16–17.