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S9 Ep919: NT Greek, Verbal Aspect Theory, Evangelical Tribalism, and Interpreting the Bible: Dr. Constantine Campbell

Theology in the Raw

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Do You Know Greek?

When people ask me, do you know greek? Iill immediately say, no, i don't know. A little bit of greek is a dangerous thing, for sure. There's an essay in a volume on theological education that came out a couple of years ago where i argue that pastors who want to take their preaching seriously really do need to learn greek. The problem when you just look at translationis not that our translations are wrong or anything like that. But once you start to understand the way translations work, hichonly really happens if you do study the greek,. Is that every translation involves a certain degree of interpretation. And that means that there are other interpretations,

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