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• If we look back at the Roman Empire, and look at the split between the ‘western’ and ‘eastern’ legs of the Roman Empire, we see that both the western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire are still the west. That is, under our definition of ‘west’ being ‘west of Israel’, both the traditional western Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire are still ‘the west’.
• If we go back to our map of the world, then, we see that ‘the west’ consists of everything west of Israel - basically the Roman Empire under its western and eastern extent. And ‘the east’ consists of everything east of Israel.
• Now, it starts to get very interesting when we look at the language in which the New Testament is best known, in ‘the west’ and ‘the east’.