Paul Hoskisson on Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (week of Nov. 28, only one this week)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Paul Hoskisson and Kerry explore the history behind these little known books. They then hit on the major messages of each one, focusing less on the pronouncements of judgment that make up most of these three books, and more on the rays of hope and gems of wisdom and edification that come from them.
We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and our editor, Alexia Muhlestein, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the podcast, The Scriptures Are Real. |
| 0:12.0 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have made them become real to us because we think that helps us draw more power out of them and we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and I'm so happy to have as my guest today. |
| 0:25.6 | A former teacher, I consider a mentor of mine, Dr. Paul Hoskison, who taught, I don't know for how many years, |
| 0:33.6 | but a lot of years in the same department I'm now in an ancient scripture department of BYU when I got, was fresh off my mission and I took a book of Mormon class at BYU. Dr. |
| 0:44.1 | Hoskison was my teacher and he opened up my eyes to when you read carefully and slowly in |
| 0:51.5 | the scriptures. And he did this by the means of quizzes. But those quizzes |
| 0:55.8 | made you read carefully and slowly. And it just opened up my eyes to ways to change the scriptures |
| 1:00.3 | or read the scriptures. And then he helped me with my master's thesis and actually was somewhat |
| 1:08.0 | instrumental into my going into Egyptgyptology and so on. |
| 1:10.9 | And then I had the pleasure of teaching alongside him for a while, |
| 1:16.1 | and just someone whom I really respect and admire, both as a scholar and just a kind, |
| 1:22.7 | gentle gentleman. So thank you and welcome, Dr. Hoskison or Paul. |
| 1:29.5 | What else should we know about you? Well, thank you and welcome Dr. Hoskison or Paul. What else should we know about you? |
| 1:36.3 | Well, thank you. I'm pleased to be here and to talk about the Old Testament. It's one of my favorite books. People would ask me what was my favorite scripture. I taught all the |
| 1:42.1 | scriptures in the ancient scripture department. And the answer always was |
| 1:46.8 | whatever book I was teaching that semester. So every three years, the Old Testament was my favorite |
| 1:54.3 | book. And it's still one of my favorite books. I love the way it's written. I love what they're saying |
| 1:59.6 | in there. I was challenged when I was in graduate school by my mentor, Cyrus Gordon. |
| 2:05.6 | He said, if you ever really want to learn Hebrew, you need to read the Old Testament cover to cover. |
| 2:12.6 | I took that challenge. It took me quite a while to do it. |
| 2:16.6 | I'm not sure I understood everything in the book, |
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