12. A New Translation of The New Testament - Terryl Givens with Thom Wayment

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🗓️ 2 February 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Few scholars have the expertise, let alone the confidence, to embark on a new translation of the New Testament for Latter-day Saints. Fortunately, Thomas Wayment has enough of both. When Wayment sat down for this conversation with Terryl Givens, he was a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, but has recently moved to teaching classical studies at the university. His new translation was published by Deseret Book and the BYU Religious Studies Center—just in time for the ch...

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, before we get started I just wanted to let you know that the first book from Faith Matters publishing is now available.
0:06.0	It's called All Things New and was written by Fiona and Terrell Givens.
0:09.0	When I finished the book, I just thought this has so much potential to actually change lives. They go
0:14.8	through and trace the roots of our religious vocabulary and show how so many of
0:18.6	these words have become totally unmoored from their original foundation and
0:21.8	how a lot of those traditions have been
0:24.1	carried forward for hundreds and even thousands of years and are in a lot of ways still damaging
0:28.5	us today.
0:29.5	And then they dive into how we can reformulate our language in healthy and inspiring ways. This book is so
0:34.3	healing, it's hopeful, it's a totally paradigm shifting book that you will not be able to
0:38.4	put down. You can pick up a copy for yourself or for friends and family. It's available
0:42.4	at Desert Book on Amazon, Audible and
0:44.8	Apple Books. We're so grateful for Terrell and Fiona and all of the amazing work
0:48.3	that they've done here. All right that's all for the book for now but we have a lot more
0:51.4	to come. Thanks as always and here's the
0:53.2	episode. Welcome to Maxwell Institute Conversations. Special video cast
0:59.3	episodes of the Maxwell Institute podcast hosted by Terrell Givens and created in collaboration
1:04.8	with Faith Matters Foundation.
1:06.9	You can watch this episode in your podcast app or if you're on the run, listen to the audio
1:11.2	version. This episode features Dr. Thomas Weymn
1:13.0	of This episode features Dr. Thomas Weymn
1:23.2	of Brigham Young University. A lot has changed for Tom since this
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