This is the Baymaw Podcast with Marty Solman. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today, I am joined

solo by Elle to discuss Sin and the archaeology of Joshua. Woo-hoo! So here we go. Off the rails,

unshackled from the chains of Marty's ways, I guess. I suppose you never know he might drop in from

above if we say something else. He's secretly here. Jump in. He'll probably hear this episode with all

of the other listeners. Most likely, if we do our job well. Well, let's dig into Sin then. Yeah, yeah,

so this is a great question. Not like we talked last time about how translators are doing their best,

but sometimes they kind of freely vacillate between synonyms with what seems good to them.

It is not ideal, which is why everybody should learn Hebrew. But if you don't have the chance to do

that, here are some words for Sin that pop up. The most frequent one would be the word

hatha, and that's usually translated sin. And it very helpfully for us perfectly matches the Greek

word for Sin as well. So the picture behind it, we talked about Hebrew being a very

image-based language, along with the other Semitic languages. And so the picture behind hatha is

to miss the mark. Just like you've probably heard in a sermon, they're correct. It's an archery

thing. You have not hit it correctly. So the organizing picture I'm going to use to differentiate

between these today. So last time we talked about goddess king versus goddess creator, etc.

The organizing picture that I want to utilize is the path, which I trust is familiar to Bema

listeners. The path being the word derech, right? So if we think about hatha in the context of

walking the path, hatha would be like you've stepped, you've taken a step off, right?

Some make sense? Yeah. Wonderful. Okay. I was trying to think of what episode we talked about

this concept, and I am not sure I can tell you, but we have definitely talked about the idea of

the path and knowing the path and walking the path somewhere in the Bema corpus. I'm sure it's

foundational or at least back when I was a Marty student, it was foundational. So I'm sure it's

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