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In this episode we continue to work our way through Wisdom For Faithful Reading: Principles and Practices for Old Testament Interpretation by John Walton. It's not necessary, but if you'd like to get a copy of the book, you can do so here.You can access the transcript and other goodies by visiting aprilesweers.substack.com  or clicking on the "newsletter" link below. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

In this episode we take a break from our Wisdom for Faithful Reading series and Aprile shares some thoughts about the connection between interpreting the Bible well and emotional health.  Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

In this episode we continue to work our way through Wisdom For Faithful Reading: Principles and Practices for Old Testament Interpretation by John Walton. It's not necessary, but if you'd like to get a copy of the book, you can do so here.You can access the transcript and other goodies by visiting aprilesweers.substack.com  or clicking on the "newsletter" link below. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

In this episode we continue to work our way through Wisdom For Faithful Reading: Principles and Practices for Old Testament Interpretation by John Walton. It's not necessary, but if you'd like to get a copy of the book, you can do so here.You can access the transcript and other goodies by visiting aprilesweers.substack.com  or clicking on the "newsletter" link below. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

In this episode we continue to work our way through Wisdom For Faithful Reading: Principles and Practices for Old Testament Interpretation by John Walton. It's not necessary, but if you'd like to get a copy of the book, you can do so here.You can access the transcript and other goodies by visiting aprilesweers.substack.com  or clicking on the "newsletter" link below. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

In this episode we continue to work our way through Wisdom For Faithful Reading: Principles and Practices for Old Testament Interpretation by John Walton. It's not necessary, but if you'd like to get a copy of the book, you can do so here.You can access the transcript and other goodies by visiting aprilesweers.substack.com  or clicking on the "newsletter" link below. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

In this episode we continue to work our way through Wisdom For Faithful Reading: Principles and Practices for Old Testament Interpretation by John Walton. It's not necessary, but if you'd like to get a copy of the book, you can do so here.You can access the transcript and other goodies by visiting aprilesweers.substack.com  or clicking on the "newsletter" link below. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

In this episode we begin to work our way through Wisdom For Faithful Reading: Principles and Practices for Old Testament Interpretation by John Walton. It's not necessary, but if you'd like to get a copy of the book, you can do so here.You can access the transcript and other goodies by visiting aprilesweers.substack.com  or clicking on the "newsletter" link below. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

In this episode I introduce the book that will serve as our guide/springboard for the next few months of Hermeneutics Huesdays. The book is Wisdom for Faithful Reading by Old Testament scholar John Walton. This is not a book club, so I will be working under the assumption that no-one is reading the book along with me.  But if you would like to get yourself a copy, you can do so here. Transcripts of these episodes are published at aprilesweers.substack.com. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

It's Hermeneutics Huesday!We're wrapping up the book Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes. For an archived list of past Hermeneutics Huesday episodes, click here.The best way to stay connected with my work is by subscribing to my Subsatck newsletter. You can do that here. (That's where I'm sharing the transcripts of these HH episodes and lots of other fun content.)Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

It's Hermeneutics Huesday!We're working through the book Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes. (Reading along is not necessary. The main purpose of following the book is to keep me organized.)For an archived list of past Hermeneutics Huesday episodes, click here.The best way to stay connected with my work is by subscribing to my Subsatck newsletter. You can do that here. (That's where I'm sharing the transcripts of these HH episodes.)Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

It's Hermeneutics Huesday! We're working through the book Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes. (Reading along is not necessary. The main purpose of following the book is to keep me organized.)For an archived list of past Hermeneutics Huesday episodes, click here.The best way to stay connected with my work is by subscribing to my Subsatck newsletter. You can do that here. (That's where I'm sharing the transcripts of these HH episodes.)Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

It's been awhile! I'm excited to continue working through the book Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes. (Reading along is not necessary. The main purpose of following the book is to keep me organized.) Fir an archived list of past Hermeneutics Huesday episodes, click here.The best way to stay connected with my work is by subscribing to my Subsatck newsletter. You can do that here.Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

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Here's the Naked Bible podcast episode with Fern and Audrey: https://nakedbiblepodcast.com/podcast/naked-bible-209-a-fern-and-audrey-testimony/Sign up for the bookclub: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/646e32573e266b3df9f1dbd3Get the book: https://amzn.to/3OBmGGMSubscribe to Aprile's Substack newsletter: https://aprilesweers.substack.com/Make a donation: https://tithe.ly/give_new/www/#/tithely/give-one-time/555363Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

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If you enjoy this podcast and want to show it some love and keep it going, become a $5/mo paid Substack subscriber here! (Or visit aprilesweers.substack.com)You can find the Hermeneutics Huesday archives and resources here.A transcript of this episode is available through my Substack newsletter. Again, you can subscribe here.You can get a copy of Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes here.Read the entire Carmen Imes article about David and Bathsheba here. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

If you enjoy this podcast and want to show it some love and keep it going, become a $5/mo paid Substack subscriber here! (Or visit aprilesweers.substack.com)You can find the Hermeneutics Huesday archives and resources here.A transcript of this episode is available through my Substack newsletter. Again, you can subscribe here.You can get a copy of Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes here.Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

If you enjoy this podcast and want to show it some love and keep it going, become a $5/mo paid Substack subscriber here! (Or visit aprilesweers.substack.com)Find all of the Heaven Series resources and episode archive  here.You can purchase a copy of the Heaven workbook here.Make a donation to Her God Speaks by clicking here.Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

If you enjoy this podcast and want to show it some love and keep it going, become a $5/mo paid Substack subscriber here! (Or visit aprilesweers.substack.com)You can find the Hermeneutics Huesday archives and resources here.A transcript of this episode is available through my Substack newsletter. Again, you can subscribe here.You can get a copy of Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes here. You can access The Bible Project podcast I refer to here. The Preston Sprinkle quote comes from this book. (Highly recommend!)Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

Click here for the link to the political cartoons Aprile references. (If that link doesn't work, you can also find it at  hergodspeaks.com/heaven)If you enjoy this podcast and want to show it some love and keep it going, become a $5/mo paid Substack subscriber here! (Or visit aprilesweers.substack.com)Find all of the Heaven Series resources and episode archive  here.You can purchase a copy of the Heaven workbook here.Make a donation to Her God Speaks by clicking here.Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

If you enjoy this podcast and want to show it some love and keep it going, become a $5/mo paid Substack subscriber here! (Or visit aprilesweers.substack.com)You can find the Hermeneutics Huesday archives and resources here.A transcript of this episode is available through my Substack newsletter. Again, you can subscribe here.You can get a copy of Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes here. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

If you enjoy this podcast and want to show it some love and keep it going, become a $5/mo paid Substack subscriber here! (Or visit aprilesweers.substack.com)Find all of the Heaven Series resources and episode archive  here.You can purchase a copy of the Heaven workbook here.Make a donation to Her God Speaks by clicking here.Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

If you enjoy this podcast and want to show it some love and keep it going, become a $5/mo paid Substack subscriber here! (Or visit aprilesweers.substack.com)You can find the Hermeneutics Huesday archives and resources here.A transcript of this episode is available through my Substack newsletter. Again, you can subscribe here.You can get a copy of Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes here. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

If you enjoy this podcast and want to show it some love and keep it going, become a $5/mo paid Substack subscriber here! (Or visit aprilesweers.substack.com)You can find Hope's article "Hope for the Wanderluster" here. Find all of the Heaven Series resources and episode archive  here.You can purchase a copy of the Heaven workbook here.Make a donation to Her God Speaks by clicking here.Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

If you enjoy this podcast and want to show it some love and keep it going, become a $5/mo paid Substack subscriber here! (Or visit aprilesweers.substack.com)You can find the Hermeneutics Huesday archives and resources here.A transcript of this episode is available through my Substack newsletter. Again, you can subscribe here.You can get a copy of Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes here. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

Find all of the Heaven series resources and episode archive  here.You can purchase a copy of the Heaven workbook here.Make a donation to Her God Speaks by clicking here.Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

You can find the Hermeneutics Huesday archives and resources here.A transcript of this episode is available through my Substack newsletter. You can subscribe here.You can get a copy of Fight Like Jesus here. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

Find all of the Heaven series resources and episode archive  here.You can purchase a copy of the Heaven workbook here.Make a donation to Her God Speaks by clicking here.Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

You can find the Hermeneutics Huesday archives and resources here.A transcript of this episode is available through my Substack newsletter. You can subscribe here. You can purchase a copy of The Samaritan Woman's Story here.The well-meaning pattern article I mention is here. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

You can find the Hermeneutics Huesday archives and resources here. A transcript of this episode is available through my Substack newsletter. You can subscribe here. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

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Subscribe to Aprile's Substack (sort of like a blog that gets delivered to your inbox):aprilesweers.substack.comThe takeaways from this episode:A love letter flatters, the Bible forms and informs.It is okay to read the Bible to glean information. In fact, it's necessary to do so. If we make sentimental feelings our standard, we make a major percentage of the Bible completely irrelevant. Over time, as we read the holy Scriptures and seek to live them out, they change us. Find all the Hermeneutics Huesday episodes and resources in one place here. (https://hergodspeaks.com/hermeneutics-huesday)Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

Find all of the Heaven series resources here.You can purchase a copy of the Heaven workbook here.Make a donation to Her God Speaks by clicking here. Newsletter//Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

Find all of the Heaven series resources here.You can purchase a copy of the Heaven workbook here.Make a donation to Her God Speaks by clicking here. Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

The takeaways from this episode:A love letter is written to a person, the Bible was written to a people.. The Bible fundamentally a “we” book not a “me” book. Before I seek to discern what God is saying to me, I need to figure out what he's saying to us. What's the message of this passage for His people? Prioritize reading and studying the Bible in community with other believersInstagram // Website // Shop//Donate

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Takeaway's from this episode:Sound biblical hermeutics requires that we understand that the biblical authors didn't think the way we think. They were just as committed to accuracy as we are, but not in the "video camera footage" way that we are. You aren't reading a police report, you are reading holy Scripture!Let the apparent contradictions or conundrums be an invitation to linger in the text, to explore on a deeper level what the author of each passage was seeking to communicate and how his unique presentation of the facts accomplishes that. Learn to respect the artistry, the arrangement, the rhythm and flow of thought, the use of imagery and metaphor, and the way the author hyperlinks his words to other parts of Scripture. As best you can, try to think like an ancient reader. Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

Mark your calendar, because the  February 23rd launch Her God Speaks Heaven series is just one week away!Order you're companion study guide here. Let's learn stuff together! Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

Takeaways from this episode:The authors of Scripture are constantly taking one idea – usually something tangible and easy to understand – and mapping that idea onto a more abstract concept or experience. (This is what a metaphor is.)Taking every word of the Bible literally should NOT be a badge of honor!Every culture develops its OWN metaphors that will seem strange – perhaps even nonsensical – to another culture. This means we're going to have to do some work to discern the meaning of biblical metaphor to the author and original audience. Don't be afraid of taking biblical metaphor metaphorically! Metaphors express what's true just as much as more literal descriptions of reality, they just use a different medium to do it. Instagram // Website // Shop//Donate

The takeaways from this episode:We cannot answer the question, “What DOES this passage mean (for us)?” until we first seek an answer to the question, “What DID this passage mean (for the author and original audience)?”The problem in the story Aprile reads is the "interdimensional superbeings" failing first, to understand what a political cartoon IS and second, to see the political cartoon through the eyes of the original artist and audience.  We do this with the Bible ALL the time, particularly the parts of Scripture that heavily employ imagery and metaphor (which is a LOT of Scripture).Here's the link to Joshua Porter's book:(This is an affiliate link, so Her God Speaks makes a small commission if you use it.)Death to Deconstruction: Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of RebellionInstagram // Website // Shop//Donate

The takeaways from this episode:Literary context is essential, but literary context without deep regard for historical and cultural context  can give you a false sense of understanding what a passage means when in reality you're not being a very good "tourist" of scripture.We cannot assume that our plain reading  of the text is the same as the original audiences' plain reading of the text. What a passage means for us when we take it at face value is probably not what it meant for them when they took it at face value. Genesis 1 is a temple text.We need to find scholars who are experts in historical/cultural context and we need to read what they're writing. Some of my favorites  for OT studies are are John Walton, Michael Heiser, Tremper Longman, Gordon Whenham, and Tim Mackie.For NT studies, my go-to scholars are NT Wright, Michael Bird, Craig Keener, Douglas Moo, Scot McKnight, Tom Schreiner The Lost World of Genesis One by John WaltonInstagram // Website // Shop

The takeaways from this episode:The Bible was not written to us, meaning that it was not written in any modern language or with our modern assumptions, values and worldview in mind.We can't answer the question, "What DOES it mean (for us)?" until we do the work of seeking an answer to the question, "What DID it mean (for them)?” A passage can't mean something for us that it never would have meant for the original audience. Books for further study:(These are Amazon Associate links. I make a small commission if you use them.) How NOT to Read the Bible by Dan KimballIn the Beginning we Misunderstood by Johnny Miller and John SodenThe Lost World of Genesis One by John WaltonInstagram // Website // Shop

The takeaways from this episode:We have a tendency to map all of OUR cultural assumptions onto the Bible and expect to come out the other side with an accurate interpretation. It doesn't work!The Bible is fundamentally an act of communication and communication by nature is always contextualized.The Bible was written FOR us, but it was not written TO us.Before we can answer the question, "What DOES it mean for us today?" we have to seek (the best we can!) to answer the question "What DID it mean for the original author and audience?”Instagram // Website // Shop

The takeaways from this episode:When we don't think carefully about the historical and cultural context in which the Bible was originally written we are being bad tourists of the Bible, guilty of cultural snobbery. The Bible is a DIVINE book written and delivered by  HUMAN agents.These human agents were real people who played a real part in writing the Bible.Instagram // Website // Shop

Get your ticket for the LIVE book club discussion group on August 4th here!Get a copy of Delighting in the Trinity here.Get the free book club printable with chapter summaries and discussion questions here.You can connect with Ani Kassabian and Women in Theology here.Instagram // Facebook // Website // Shop