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Cranky, Bald Donkeys and Textual Criticism, with Andrew Perrin: Jeremiah 14:6
Season 7 Episode 9
Looking at ancient copies (manuscripts) of the Old Testament is necessary if we are to reconstruct the earliest wording of the texts, but the manuscripts can also shed light on the ancient scribes, t…
Published on 20 hours ago
The Messianic Whipper Snapper, with N. Clayton Croy: John 2:15
Season 7 Episode 8
The RSV's translation of the "cleansing of the temple" in John 2:15 is in part, "And making a whip of cords, he drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple." John's Greek, however, sug…
Published on 1 week ago
The New Creation Story of Jesus Christ, with David Capes: Matthew 1:1
Season 7 Episode 7
The opening words of Matthew's Gospel are translated as, "An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah" (NRSV), or "This is the genealogy . . ." (NIV), or "This is a record of the ancestors . . .…
Published on 2 weeks ago
At the Doorstep of Nicaea, with Malcolm Yarnell: Colossians 2:9
Season 7 Episode 6
The Colossian churches had shifted their attention from Christ to calendrical matters, mediatorial figures, mystical visions, and philosophical notions. Paul is calling them to focus on Christ, who i…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Whose Koilia is This?, with Jennifer Houston McNeel: John 7:38
Season 7 Episode 5
The NRSV translates John 7:38, "Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water." Behind that stand entangled questions of the punctuation of the Greek sentences (punctuation is lacking…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Honor Everyone As the King, the King as Everyone, with Jason Maston: 1 Peter 2:17
Season 7 Episode 4
Peter's Greek wording in 1 Pet. 2:17 suggests a subtle but potent leveling of people and Roman king in Peter's kingdom vision. Dr. Jason Maston is Professor of Theology at Houston Christian Universit…
Published on 1 month ago
This Place, with James Hoffmeier: Jeremiah 7:7
Season 7 Episode 3
Modern students of biblical Hebrew learn that the "pointing" (symbols for vowels) of the commonly used Masoretic text of the OT was added to the Hebrew consonants in the medieval period, and that the…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Incredible Things, with Tom Schmidt: Luke 5:26
Season 7 Episode 2
In a healing story shared by the first three Gospels, Luke reports a uniquely worded response of onlookers, translated in the NIV as, "We have seen remarkable things today." The key Greek word is παρ…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Finding Jesus Inside the Shema, with N. T. Wright: 1 Corinthians 8:6
Season 7 Episode 1
As of Paul's first (existing) letter to them, the Corinthians are still struggling to understand and practice their faith in their native, non-Jewish environment. In a passage centering on the knowle…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Praising the Lord in Hebrew, with Chandler Dean: Psalm 150
Season 6 Episode 49
Hebrew poetry is rich in parallelism of sound (phonological), words (lexical), meaning (semantic), and grammar, through which meaning is conveyed. Psalm 150 illustrates these devices, and manages to …
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago