Ever since Matthew Arnold,it has been widely recognized that the two great sources of western civilization are Hellenism and Hebraism.However,the general Greco|Roman attitudes toward Jews and Judaism bear a negative and sometimes even malicious character.Such Jewish peculiarities as the nature of the Jewish god, dietary restrictions,laws pertaining to Sabbath, the practice of circumcision and so on not only most interested the pagans but stimulated their concentrated misinterpretation as well.The distorted image of Jews thus resulting from the pagans’ lack of incentive to know more about Judaism contributed to the surge of particularism within Judaism,which in turn deteriorated the relationship between Jews and Gentiles and laid the groundwork for the rise of large|scale anti|Semitism in Middle Ages.u001aer aims to study context, which is observed in static context and dynamic context, and to study meaning, which is dealt with in static meaning and dynamic meaning. The paper points out that the properties of staticness and dynamicness of context and meaning exist relatively in the English language and in our communication. With the development of linguistics, dynamicness is absolute while staticness is relative in terms of context and meaning. In light of the properties of context and meaning, the paper approaches the function of context to meaning in five respects. From the discussion, we find that context works well with both the meaning of utterances and that of written language, that context works better with the meaning of utterances and that meaning relies heavily on context. Ever since Matthew Arnold, it has been widely recognized that the two great sources of western civilization are Hellenism and Hebraism. However, the general Greco | Roman attitudes toward Jews and Judaism bear a negative and sometimes even malicious character. Chu Jewish peculiarities as the nature of the Jewish god, dietary restrictions, law ofing to Sabbath, the practice of circumcision and so on not only most most interested the pagans but stimulated their concentrated misinterpretation as well. distorted image of Jews therefore resulting from the pagans’ lack of incentive to know more about Judaism contributed to the surge of particularism within Judaism, which in turn deteriorated the relationship between Jews and Gentiles and laid the groundwork for the rise of large | scale anti | Semitism in Middle Ages. u001aer aims to study context, which is observed in static context and dynamic context, and to study meaning, which is dealt with in static meaning and dynamic meaning. The paper poi nts out that the properties of staticness and dynamicness of context and meaning exist relatively in the English language and in our communication. With the development of linguistics, dynamicness is absolute while staticness is relative in terms of context and meaning. In light of the properties of context of meaning, the paper approaches the function of context to meaning in five respects. from the discussion, we find that context works well with both the meaning of utterances and that of written language, that context works better with the meaning of utterances and that meaning relies heavily on context.