Naked Bible 032: Studying the Original Languages of the Bible: Word Study Techniques, Part 1

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Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 22 January 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Today we're continuing with our series on Bible study at the word level. Last time we talked about exegetical fallacies that arise from flawed word study methods. In this episode, I want to transition to some important elements that go into word study. Today we’ll primarily be focused on examining a word as it’s used by a single author throughout the material that author wrote – in this case the apostle Paul. But the word I've chosen for our focus also means that we’ll be getting into the issue of a word’s distribution across a corpus – in this case, obviously, the New Testament. Since this example is so restrictive – since my primary interest in this episode is a single author’s use – I’ll probably return to word distribution when doing word studies in a future episode. Greek-English Lexicons cited in the episode: BDAG A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd Edition older edition of the above (1979, now out-of-date, but useful): A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Second Edition Digital edition of BDAG Liddell-Scott (abridged hard copy edition) An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon: Founded upon the Seventh Edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon Liddell-Scott in digital: full 9th edition

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0:00.0	Check description for all other things.
0:16.9	Welcome back to the Naked Bible Podcast.
0:35.9	Today I'm going to continue with our series on Bible study at the Word level.
0:40.9	This time we talked about exogetical fallacies that arise from flawed Word study methods.
0:47.0	In this episode though I want to transition to some important elements that go into Word
0:51.3	study, something positive, something that you want to do.
0:54.9	Today we'll primarily be focused on examining a Word as it's used by a single author throughout
1:00.7	the material that that author wrote.
1:03.3	In this case the Apostle Paul.
1:05.8	But the Word I've chosen for our focus also means that we'll be getting into the issue of
1:10.2	a Word's distribution across a corpus.
1:13.7	In this case obviously the New Testament.
1:16.8	Now since this example that I've picked is so restrictive, again since my primary interest
1:21.8	in this episode is a single author's use as opposed to a wider distribution.
1:28.5	I'll probably return to Word distribution when doing Word studies in a future episode.
1:34.4	But let's just jump into what we want to cover today.
1:37.5	I want to get started by turning to 1 Corinthians 7.
1:41.1	Now during the course of the podcast that follows as we go on here, I'll be talking about
1:48.2	specific words in 1 Corinthians 7.
1:51.5	I've reproduced the important sections of the chapter on the podcast website,
1:57.1	it's episode 32.
1:59.1	And I have certain words colored and marked for reasons that I'll indicate as we proceed here.
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