S9 Ep953: Behind the Scenes of Bible Translation: Dr. Brandon Smith
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Brandon Smith is associate professor of theology at Cedarville University. Previously, he spent the previous four years helping lead the Christian Standard Bible translation and as an elder at a church in the Nashville area. He also helped found the Center for Baptist Renewal and hosts the Church Grammar podcast. His research interests include the Trinity, canonical and theological interpretation, biblical theology, and early church theology (especially AD 100-400). Brandon has a Ph.D. in Theology and New Testament, Ridley College (Melbourne), an M.A. in Biblical and Theological Studies, Criswell College, and a B.A. in Biblical Studies, Dallas Baptist University
In this episode, we discuss translation theory, why certain translations differ, whether translations are relatable, how to pick a translation for you or for your church, we also peak behind the scenes of what goes on into translating the Bible, and we unpack why the Christian Standard Bible is, in our humble opinion, the best all around translation out there.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw. The theology in the raw |
| 0:03.8 | conference is coming up March 31st to April 2nd. We're talking about race, we're talking about politics, |
| 0:08.3 | we're talking about hell, we're talking about sexuality, gender, and other engaging |
| 0:13.3 | controversial topics. There's a range of speakers giving different viewpoints and lots of Q&A, |
| 0:17.7 | lots of conversations along with talks and incredible worship and fellowship and the list goes on. |
| 0:23.8 | If you have not registered yet, go to pressensprinkle.com or theology in the raw.com. We are rolling out |
| 0:30.5 | a new website. I'm not 100% sure when that website will go live. Either way, if you go to my website, |
| 0:34.9 | click on the conference page. It will take you to wherever, wherever it wants to take you to to |
| 0:40.0 | register. I imagine that we will be filled, filled up, sold out by early March. We're on pace to |
| 0:46.0 | fill up by then. So if you want to attend live in person, do that register ASAP or you can attend |
| 0:53.2 | virtually. If you attend virtually and you can't make the like time zone or you fall ill or |
| 1:00.0 | just don't want to watch it that night or whatever, if you can't make the timing, you do get access |
| 1:05.0 | to the full video conference. I think for at least seven days, I get this question all the time. |
| 1:10.9 | If I sign up virtually, do I have to watch it live or can I wait half a day or a day or a |
| 1:16.0 | couple of days? Yes. Register virtually. You can get access to it after. My guest today is Dr. |
| 1:22.7 | Brandon Smith. He's been a friend for many years. He teaches at my old Alma Mater at |
| 1:26.8 | Fesitaville University. He has a bachelor's degree in biblical studies and MA and biblical |
| 1:31.3 | and theological studies and a PhD in theology and New Testament from Ridley College and Melbourne, |
| 1:36.2 | Australia, under my good friend Mike Bird. He worked on the translation team for the Christian |
| 1:42.3 | standard Bible. My favorite translation and I'm very excited to talk to him about that translation, |
| 1:48.2 | but also just translation theory if you're looking. If you have questions about what translation should |
| 1:52.8 | I use? Why are they different? How are they different? Which one's better for this kind of reading |
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