In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso talks with Dr. Jason Staples about the meaning of Ισραήλ (Israel) in Paul. Jason Staples is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at NC State University. He’s the author of two books, The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism, published with Cambridge University Press in 2021, and Paul and the Resurrection of Israel, which will come out next year, also with Cambridge University press. H...
Oct 19, 2022•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast How should we understand φύσει in Romans 2:14? Does it mean that the Gentiles "naturally" do what the Law requires, as suggested by most translations (e.g. ESV)? Or does it mean that Gentiles do not "naturally" have the Law, as suggested in translations like the CSB? And how does this distinction change what Paul is trying to communicate about Gentiles? In this short explanation, Dr. Kevin Grasso looks at how φύσει functions adverbially in other biblical Greek texts, as well as broader ancient G...
Oct 14, 2022•11 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso talks with Dr. John Collins about the meaning of νόμος (Law or Torah) in Paul. A native of Ireland, Professor Collins was a professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago from 1991 until his arrival at Yale Divinity School in 2000. He previously taught at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on the subjects of apocalypticism, wisdom, Hellenistic Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and he has numerous scholarl...
Oct 12, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast How should we understand the word δικαιούμενοι in Romans 3:24? It's often translated as "justified", but here we argue for the translation "made righteous." In this short discussion, we first look at recent proposals for what this word means. We then present some linguistic tools that you can use to think through what words mean and how to interpret them. In light of these tools, we will take another look at justification language in Romans 3:24 and in Romans more broadly. The Meaning of ...
Oct 08, 2022•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso talks with Dr. James Prothro about the meaning of language related to justification and righteousness in Paul. James B. Prothro earned masters degrees in theology and in classical philology, and completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2017. He has worked in churches and parish ministries and as a professor, and currently teaches at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology in Colorado. He has written on Greek and...
Oct 05, 2022•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Almost every verse in Romans is hotly debated, but Romans 1:17 is one of the few where just about every word is contested. The phrase ‘righteousness of God’ has, of course, received a lot of airtime. Then there is the very condense ἐκ πίστεως εἰς πίστιν, usually woodenly translated ‘from faith for faith’ (ESV) or opaquely translated ‘by faith from first to last’ (NIV). These translations can be quite puzzling even for native speakers of English. What exactly would mean for the righteousness of G...
Sep 30, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso talks with Dr. Teresa Morgan about the meaning of πίστις (faith, trust, faithfulness, allegience, etc.) in Paul. Teresa Morgan studied Classics at Cambridge, Theology at Oxford, and violin and viola in Cologne and London. After many years teaching Greek and Roman history at Oxford University, she has just taken up the McDonald Agape Professorship in New Testament and Early Christianity at Yale Divinity School. Her writing crosses th...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Galatians 3:22 in Greek reads: ἀλλὰ συνέκλεισεν ἡ γραφὴ τὰ πάντα ὑπὸ ἁμαρτίαν, ἵνα ἡ ἐπαγγελία ἐκ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ δοθῇ τοῖς πιστεύουσιν. We can translate this as 'But the Scriptures shut up everything under sin, so that the promise from πίστεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ might be given to those who are faithful.' The only phrase left untranslated in this sentence has led to a tremendous amount of scholarly sparring, which I myself have taken part in. It is the phrase ἐκ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, and the d...
Sep 23, 2022•13 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Dr. Kevin Grasso talks with Dr. Matthew Novenson about the meaning of Χριστός (Christ or Messiah) in Paul. Matthew Novenson is Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Director of the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh. A scholar of religion in antiquity, in particular Judaism and Christianity, he is the author of Christ among the Messiahs (2012) , The Grammar of Messianism (2017) , and Paul, Then and Now (2022)...
Sep 21, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a bonus episode for our series on Key Terms in Pauline Theology. As we release the main episodes for this series where we interview top scholars in the field regarding their research on key terms, we're also going to release these shorter episodes where we dive into a specific biblical text that deals with that term. So in our previous episode, Kevin interviewed Joshua Jipp about the term Χριστός, or Messiah, and how it relates to other terms, such as νόμος, or Torah. In this episode, Ke...
Sep 16, 2022•14 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso talks with Dr. Joshua Jipp about the significance of Jesus as Messiah in Pauline Theology. Dr. Jipp has taught New Testament in a variety of settings, including as a Teaching Fellow at TEDS, before joining the faculty at Trinity. He has published essays in Themelios, Journal of Theological Interpretation, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Bulletin of Biblical Research, New Testament Studies, Ho...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso discusses how to analyze word order in biblical Greek and biblical Hebrew. Show notes at: https://biblingo.org/blog/how-to-analyze-word-order-in-the-biblical-languages/
Aug 27, 2022•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso talks with Dr. Chiara Gianollo about the syntax of negation in biblical Greek. Show notes here: https://biblingo.org/blog/the-syntax-of-negation-in-biblical-greek-with-chiara-gianollo/
Aug 19, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso discusses topic, focus and question words in biblical Greek, and how each of these affects word order. Show notes available here: https://biblingo.org/blog/topic-focus-and-questions-in-biblical-greek/
Aug 12, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso discusses the basic word order of biblical Greek. Show notes: https://biblingo.org/blog/basic-word-order-in-biblical-greek/
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Nick Messmer talks with Alan Cossey about his experience learning biblical Greek and Hebrew, including how he has managed to practice 30 minutes nearly every day for 2 years. Show notes at: https://biblingo.org/practicing-the-biblical-languages-30-minutes-every-day-with-alan-cossey
Jul 07, 2022•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is a recording of a livestream event hosted by the Ancient Language Institute . They invited Nick Messmer, co-founder of Biblingo and co-host of the Biblical Languages Podcast, to be a part of their roundtable discussion about how to learn ancient languages, specifically in light of modern second language acquisition research. The conversation was about 2 hours long, so we're splitting it up into 2 parts for the podcast. In this second part, we talk about speaking ancient lang...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is a recording of a livestream event hosted by the Ancient Language Institute. They invited Nick Messmer, co-founder of Biblingo and co-host of the Biblical Languages Podcast, to be a part of their roundtable discussion about how to learn ancient languages, specifically in light of modern second language acquisition research. The conversation was about 2 hours long, so we're splitting it up into 2 parts for the podcast. In this first part, we talk about about our backgrounds, the gr...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso and Nick Messmer discuss the VS vs. SV debate in biblical Hebrew. Show notes at: biblingo.org/blog/the-vs-sv-debate-in-biblical-hebrew
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Nick Messmer talks with Teresa Kovac about her experience learning biblical Hebrew, including self-studying to pass a Hebrew competency exam and place out of first semester Hebrew. Show notes at: https://biblingo.org/blog/how-to-pass-a-hebrew-or-greek-competency-exam-with-teresa-kovac/
Jun 03, 2022•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso talks with Dr. Daniel Wilson about some special clauses in biblical Hebrew: copula clauses and existential clauses. Show notes available at: https://biblingo.org/blog/copula-and-existential-clauses-in-biblical-hebrew/
May 27, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso talks with Dr. Vince DeCaen about basic word order in biblical Hebrew. Show notes at biblingo.org/blog/basic-word-order-in-biblical-hebrew
May 20, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso talks with Dr. Paul Kroeger about the basics of word order. Find show notes at: https://biblingo.org/blog/introduction-to-word-order/
May 13, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso shares core concepts that are essential for doing the task of pragmatics. Find show notes and a full blog post at: https://biblingo.org/blog/basic-pragmatics-concepts/
Apr 29, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso shares core concepts that are essential for doing the task of syntax. Find show notes and a full blog post at: https://biblingo.org/blog/basic-syntax-concepts/
Apr 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso shares core concepts that are essential for understanding morphology. Find show notes and a full blog post at: https://biblingo.org/blog/basic-morphology-concepts/
Apr 15, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso shares six core concepts that are essential for doing the task of semantics. Find show notes and a full blog post at: https://biblingo.org/blog/basic-semantic-concepts/
Apr 08, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we share some personal updates from Nick and Kevin, as well as what we have planned for the podcast for the rest of 2022. Show notes: Kevin's dissertation: "Verbs of Judgment in Biblical Hebrew. A Lexical Semantic Analysis" (free download) Sign up for Biblingo's monthly newsletter...
Apr 06, 2022•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso and Nick Messmer discuss the role of exegesis in studying biblical Greek and Hebrew, and how different pedagogical approaches do or do not prepare us for exegesis. Find show notes at: https://biblingo.org/blog/do-we-really-need-exegesis/ Get 30% off Biblingo through December 31, 2021. Learn more and take advantage of the discount here: biblingo.org/holidays...
Dec 16, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso and Nick Messmer discuss the role of the biblical text in learning biblical Greek and Hebrew, and why you shouldn't get into it too soon. Find show notes at: https://biblingo.org/blog/the-role-of-the-biblical-text-in-language-learning/ Get 30% off Biblingo through December 31, 2021. Learn more and take advantage of the discount here: biblingo.org/holidays...
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