Naked Bible 411: Paul’s Use of the Old Testament Series: Introduction

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Many Bible students are unaware of the controversy surrounding how Paul (and other New Testament writers) cite the Old Testament. This is not only a question of taking the time to notice how Paul’s citations alter Old Testament verses, but also because of how we are conditioned to think about hermeneutics, the science and art of biblical interpretation. In this episode, the first of a series on the subject with guest scholar Dr. Matt Halsted, we survey why the issue is important and the sorts of controversies to which it leads.

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0:26.3	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast, episode 411, Paul's Use of the Old Testament Series.
0:32.4	Introduction with Matt Paulstedt, I'm the layman Tray Strickland and he's the sculptor
0:36.4	Dr. Michael Heiser, hey Mike, it's our new series, I'm looking forward to it.
0:40.8	Yeah, I've been looking forward to this for a while too and especially with our guest,
0:46.8	we're going to have an extended discussion on really, it's really hermeneutics but we're
0:51.9	going to focus on Paul's Use of the Old Testament and that's going to take us down a number
0:56.1	of rabbit trails that I think are going to be beneficial for our audience.
1:00.4	Yeah, so this is kind of our first series.
1:02.9	Then we're going to have a couple this year but we're planning on at least 10-ish episodes
1:08.8	so people can expect this conversation to carry on over multiple episodes and this is
1:14.1	just the first of many.
1:16.2	Yeah, I'm not sure how many we'll get but we're going to have a number of them and so
1:21.0	this is like we talked about on the year end episode, this is the plan to periodically
1:27.4	inject conversation series about important topics and so this is where we launch that.
1:34.4	Well we're grateful to have Matt Paulstedt on the podcast with us and I'm going to ask
1:40.2	Matt to introduce himself to the podcast audience because you're going to be hearing
1:45.1	a lot of him and me talking about matters messianic and matters hermeneutical.
1:52.1	That's what this series is going to be about.
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