Podcast Episodes

Augustine the Septuagint-onlyist vs Jerome

Have you ever read the letters that went back and forth between St. Augustine and Jerome about Bible translation? If you haven’t, this is going to be…

4 years, 6 months ago

God's Idea of Success in Bible Translation

Recently Justin Taylor shared some quotes from three different men that reflect on a biblical view of success in ministry. Those three men are Mark D…

4 years, 6 months ago

A Review of "The Art of Bible Translation" - with Mark Ward

I want to share with you a wonderfully articulate and insightful book review done by my friend Mark Ward. Mark has been on this podcast before talkin…

4 years, 6 months ago

Warriors & Aramaisms - checking 2 Samuel part 4

We take a deep dive on the state of the text of Samuel and 2 Samuel 22:26 in particular, and hopefully gain a broader, better, more nuanced understan…

4 years, 6 months ago

Translating Satan in Job - in defense of the traditional view with Ken Berding

A while back I featured Jordon Monson on my podcast who presented a particular view of Satan or "the satan" in the book of Job. This view has been wi…

4 years, 6 months ago

You Wanna Build Me a House? - checking 2 Samuel part 3

There are still a lot of notes that we haven’t discussed from my time spent checking 2 Samuel, so we’re going to tackle a couple more in this episode…

4 years, 7 months ago

God's Steadfast Love, or David's? - with Peter Gentry

In the last episode I left you hanging on the question as to why it’s possible to translate Isaiah 55:3 referring to David as the subject of acts of …

4 years, 7 months ago

Crazy Simple & Complicated Words of David - checking 2 Samuel part 1

It’s been a while since we got into some nitty-gritty, concrete examples of my daily workflow in translation consulting. So in this episode we’re goi…

4 years, 7 months ago

The Precision of Greek - part 2 with Nat Erickson

Make sure you listen to the first part of this conversation in the previous episode. You can check out Nat's blog at https://ntgreeketal.com/.

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4 years, 8 months ago

Is Greek a Magically Precise Language? - with Nat Erickson

Have you ever heard anyone say that God chose to write the NT in Greek because it’s such an incredibly precise language? I’ve heard plenty of people …

4 years, 8 months ago