This is the Baymawe podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm as co-host Brent Billings.

Today we are with Al Grover Frick to kick off a new series,

Talmudic Conversations in Matthew.

I'm so excited.

Season 8 is great.

I hope you're excited because this is your series, Elth.

Yeah, yeah, it would be a bummer if I was like, it's med, it's okay.

For a while there I thought you were going to talk in rhymes the whole time and I was like,

oh, I'm here for this series. I couldn't I couldn't be here for that. I read

enough Dr. Seuss and etc with my children to to be happy to have a little break from

meter. But the central organizing question of this series is what kind of insight do we miss when we don't understand the fullness of the conversation?

Or more positively stated, what do we have to gain by exploring the fullness of the cultural

conversation kind of reminds me of a book that somebody wrote recently

slipping my mind. We can we can ask questions we can ask good questions we can ask

bad questions we can ask better questions. That's right. This feels like one of those

better better varieties. I hope so. Yeah, any speaker worth their salt, right? Theelosian politician,

academic scientist, the whole nine years. They're not just downloading their

information from the sky and delivering it to their

listeners ex-Nihilo, but sometimes we think of Jesus that way. However, all

those speakers are hopefully engaging with their cultural, historical, theological

context.

So our potential for misunderstanding is enormous when we miss these contextual reference points.

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