While Jesus lived in an apocalyptic world charged with cosmic spirits, he used earthly images that shaped his creative thoughts. Many of these images can be more accurately imagined two thousand years later, since we can hold or see first-century realia, like stone vessels, lamps and “flasks” (actually oil fillers), walled vineyards with towers, coins (even the widow’s mite), and swords, that shaped his pictorially rich teachings and parables ...