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There is creator and there are being created by Him. The creator is One and Only.

It's not bad enough that Christianity has turned against itself to the point of extinction, but you have to insult other approaches in order to "sell" your service. In presenting the gospel, I never tell people what they're doing wrong, only what Jesus Christ did right. Can you promote your approach without degrading others? I hope you make lots of cash in your pursuit of being the sole provider of language teaching! Hey, find more "science" to back you up!

Very interesting. I have been following Dr. Wolf for several years. I learned NT Greek with the Ray Summer's 1950 Essentials of NT Greek in 1972. Ten years later at the age of 34, I learned Spanish with the Modern Spanish by the Modern Language Association. I think Modern Spanish was the penultimate program for truly mastering a foreign language for both speaking, reading and writing. It featured memorization of dialogues and extensive structural and transformation drills for developing automaticity. I would think that something similar would be great for Ancient Greek, Hebrew, and Latin.

God, thank you that your Son is the only one that we should call Rabbi. Please forgive any ignorance that we have had in our lives in Jesus mighty name. Amen 🙏 🤍

Great app

I heard a very interesting teaching that there are mistranslated words- should have said commentary as in Talmud. Words were interchanged. The Talmud is commentary by rabbis . Torah is not.

Reading the Bible in the original language is a liflong journey. I appreciate breaking down the levels into a journey.

Oh, this is epic!

The best resource I've found for learning and understanding the Biblical languages.

Q: how does this fit in to the plans you offer? I clicked the link and didn't see mention of "Journeys"

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Good talk. Thanks. I'll look out for S. Cohen's Mishnah.

In this video יֶהְגֶּ֣ה is pronounced as having a silent schwa under the He, but in other readings of this verse the schwa is vocal as in Abraham Shmuelof's reading . So, which is it?

Interesting. I had a copy at one point of the Neusner Mishnah which just didn't seem to be a very good translation, and so I got the older translation, Danby, which has pleased me, but I'm a Catholic Christian. It's obvious to me that there's room for a new Jewish Mishnah in English.

Very cool.

Very funny, and of course very interesting as scholarship, thanks for this. Btw PDF is in one volume :)

Cover for == Satisfy ?

Excellent video. Thank you. At around the 5-min mark, you apply the term according to a substitutionary model of atonement that I personally think is a bit thin, though typical of a generally Protestant view. Man-X owes his life to God on account of sin, so he sacrifices Victim-Y in place of himself, and God accepts that sacrifice as a substitute. I think, though, that the biblical view of sacrifice is first of all self-gift to a God who loves us into being and calls us to love him in return. Sin moves in the opposite direction, and in our sin, sacrifice becomes difficult for us, so we need special assistance is turning us back to the proper posture and movement for which we were created. In the end, the victim offered isn't properly a substitute for the one who offers the sacrifice but a means through which he can begin to make the self-offering his sinfulness resists. The one offering the sacrifice is carried within and expressed through the victim.

But Paul never said that he identifies the gentiles who turn to the faith to the fleshly Israel… “for they are enemies of the Gospel for your (gentiles) sake…” and after their fullness (the fullness of the gentiles) come in.. all of the fleshly Israel (those who aren’t gentiles but Israelites who are enemies of the gospel and reject it) will be saved…

Thank you! I have a very hard time to understand KJ translation also because English is my second language and it has shocking to learn that some versions add stuff according to their own theology like Matthew 17:21. 🤔 so I’m searching for the most accurate one and I’m looking to read the interlineal Fransico Lacueva in Spanish my mother tongue 😊

Neither? Seminary is not necessary just to learn languages, there are plenty of other sources (free and not) for that knowledge. A particular app? Again - it _might_ be a good app, but given the 'blog version' is on the Biblingo website, I expect there is at least a little bias here. Are any other possibilities mentioned? No - this is a fundamentally dishonest video, that alone would make me avoid this app at all costs.

I agree completely! Congratulations! Thank you!

If you go to seminary or the academic route, you will make many contacts, write papers and do research and archaeological work that will potentially lead to a full career with many contributions. If you learn in your bedroom, it's probably just going to be a rewarding hobby. So, it depends what you want.

Seminary education is nothing but a denominational info-knowledge of their doctrines based on their statement of beliefs... Might as well purchased theological, lexical books and commentaries instead and do the self-study!

As someone who took Greek and Hebrew classes in seminary back in the 1990s, I think the living language approach is a fantastic way to learn. This is especially for those who are new to Greek or Hebrew. Good reasons for the living language approach are given in episode 2 of the Biblical Languages Podcast (Biblingo).

Reading is not the same as translating. Reading is when your brain reacts to Greek. Translating is thinking about Greek to get the best possible English translation. Most seminary students are focused on analysis, translation, and accessing academic works. Biblical language learning methods for this are focused on analysis and mastering grammatical terms to read reference materials. Some people are focused on acquiring active reading skills. Learning methods for this use more input and exposure. It's a question of priorities and how to best spend your limited time to efficiently acquire the skills you want. All too many people have a nebulous goal of "wanting to learn Greek" expecting that with enough effort they can someday do everything. Everyone should prioritize what they want to be able to do and choose methods that build those particular skills first.

If scholars are debating how to translate, how will I a non-scholar know how to translate it? I learned some Greek and bought a commentary that was highly regarded. All it did is present multiple ways to understand the text. I think the languages can help at times but I also think it is misrepresented how much help they are. After all you are learning them from people who learned them from people who only learned them to translate the Bible but never used them in life at any time. So your first word of the Bible debate is more a reason not to study Hebrew not an encouragement to study Hebrew.

Motivation is the key. Seeing the importance of engaging with the word of God in the original language, it is essential for anyone who is in pastoral ministry. My method was 3 three years of Classical Greek at University and 34 years (so far) of reading a chapter of the new testament each day.

Mind-blowing, causing me to question what I thought I knew about verbal aspect having ready many NT scholars who have written on the subject. Incredibly helpful - thank you!

Important to note that while this is Kevin's preferred rendering of genesis 1:1 is valid, the rendering of the JPS (and NRSVue) have significant support from scholars that has been growing. Part of this is that it's not just that there's no definite article, but also that ראשית is in the construct. There is only one other example in the hebrew bible of it being used to signify an absolute beginning (rather than meaning something like "beginning of"), but that verse is of a different genre

Was just thinking about this yesterday

Just go to bingo.

Hey Kevin, just curious do you go with Yahweh or Yehovah? Just curious. I was under the impression that the Jews of Israel don't recognize (reject) Yahweh. I know when it comes to reading the tetragrammaton they prefer to go with Adonai and that's what my Hebrew professor did as well. You probably go with Adonai as well but just wondering which you believe is correct, Yehovah or Yahweh.

I think the lack of grades and such is actually a boon for encouraging genuine learning tbh

Best way in the world to start acquiring Greek and Hebrew!

I think purify works better as a translation. Sin is literally a mistake. You can sin unintentionally. The altar can "sin," via exposure to ritual impurities (dead things, females during their menses or after giving birth, men who have had emissions, people who have been such things, & more). Cover implies the sin is still there, under something. Covering would mean not being really cleansed from the world, or even from the person (or object), but just sort of buried or hidden (under the cover). Purify seems a lot closer. But I do agree that "atonement" as a translation does feel like it breaks down when this is referring to inanimate objects.

Why not intepret it to mean "singular"? Thats how most Rabbis have told me it means.

When you think of the word "atonement", think "at-one-ment" that is striving to be "at one" with our maker. To do that, we listen to Paul to bring into captivity "every thought to the obedience of Christ" or to keep our thought "Christ-like". Jesus told us in his sermon on the mount to love God with all our heart and soul and mind and to love our neighbor as ourselves. So, atonement isn't a mere verbal assent or request to remove our sins, but the actual change in character to give up hatred, criticism, jealousy, fear, lies, deception, selfishness and other character flaws and to take on the "mind of Christ" as we are encouraged to do throughout the New Testament. Discussing the "atonement" ascribed to inanimate objects as the speaker relates is rather irrelevant when compared to our own salvation. Rites, rituals, creeds do not honor Christ but are "virtue" signaling, as in the movie "The Godfather" when Michael Corleone is having his child baptized while arranging the murder of his enemies.

Since the word 'atonement' was created in the 14th to 17th century AD, at least according to what I can find, then using it as the equivalent to the Hebrew word is at best an artificial fit.

Kaf, Pe, Resh - cover , PROTECT ChoPheR - a Bribe to cover a legal distortion, wrong in 1 Samuel 12:3. If a sin can be attonef for it means that the negative results are anhulled. Not all sons can be attoned.

Noah “pitched the ark” with pitch. Which is quite fascinating when you think about it. Pitch the verb means to cover.

I think you're trying to pigeonhole כפר into one or the other hole. And it's messing with the results of this linguistic double slit experiment, so that we can't see the true pattern (semantic) of the one photon (word) going through (translated by) the two holes (English words). Cover is a fairly intuitive word, applicable to any class of noun... but what does "atone/atonement" really mean, and why is it therefore only for persons, not places and things? On this you were weak and overly reliant upon colloquial intuition (that may not be common to all in the audience). What would the motive have been for this _pedagogy_ of English translation? By your omission of this point, you act as though this was simply an error or else a petty misleading of readers. For all you say about it, "to atone" was a synonym for "to cover" for English speakers hundreds of years ago (probably not). It remains that this inheritance was passed on according to the 3rd/4th Commandment (Exod. 20:12), so perhaps one should check for a good reason for it so as to merit the promise (Eph. 6:2-3).

So if you know Hebrew why do you show Scriptures with *altered* wording?

Would you do a lesson on greek verbs and nouns and can or should nouns be used as verbs especially faith.

And He called to Moses, and Yahweh spoke to him from the tent of appointment, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and you will say to them: - Concordant Literal Old Testament

So Aaron took it, just as Moses had spoken, and |ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the stroke had started among the people. He put the incense on it and made a propitiatory shelter over the people. He stood between the dead and the living, and the stroke was restrained. - Concordant Literal Old Testament