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The Naked Bible Podcast

Naked Bible 030: Studying the Original Languages of the Bible: Introduction to Word Meaning

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, the series on taking Bible study seriously transitions to word level research by overviewing some directions we'll take as we think about studying biblical words.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here's the links to your monthly file repair website that you can submit to the Finland

0:26.0

Welcome back to the Naked Bible Podcast.

0:36.9

We're going to shift gears in the podcast now.

0:39.1

We've spent a lot of time talking about interpreting scripture in light of its own context.

0:45.9

We talked about world view context and lots of historical backgrounds and becoming acquainted

0:52.5

with ancient literature.

0:55.1

Again, that helps us think the writer's thoughts after him.

1:00.3

Helps us sort of recapture mentally the world view of the biblical writer so we can partake

1:06.5

in the intellectual tradition that was going on around him, the intellectual source material

1:12.3

that really formed his world, his world view.

1:15.9

So we spent a lot of time talking about that and resources for doing that.

1:20.5

And then in this series on interpreting the Bible in light of its own context, we

1:25.5

shifted into literary contexts, different genres.

1:31.1

That was all a precursor to what we're going to embark on today.

1:35.8

And that is we're going to get into words, really word level meaning, working in the text

1:43.5

at the word level, specifically interpreting the words that we read in a given path.

1:50.4

Now, this is going to be sort of a precursor episode, something that will set up the next

1:57.9

few episodes in the series.

2:00.3

So take it for what it is just by way of introduction.

2:02.9

I want to start you thinking about the kinds of things that we sort of assume that may

2:09.4

not really be true or may not really be good thinking when it comes to studying words,

2:16.4

studying the text, the words of scripture.

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