A Great Cloud (Hebrews 10-11)
Is the Divine really after belief? Were all the saints of the past most remembered for their inner certainty of an invisible realm? That can't be what Priscilla or the other NT authors mean by faith, given the pervasive emphasis on communal solidarity, economic security, and a courageous belonging. In this episode we set our sights on faith vs faithfulness, and the transforming power that shift brings to the rest of the Bible.
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What Good is Doctrine if You're Still Scapegoating? (Hebrews 5-6a)
All that Brandon Rhodes remembers about Hebrews from seminary was the debates Calvinists and others would have over Hebrews 6 – the whole "once saved, always saved" thing. Boring! This passage is far more revolutionary than that old pissing match. If our sacred story's sense of salvation is Creator inhabiting a community of love and solidarity – not rules and going to heaven – then this reads quite differently.
Notice what comes before: Jesus 101 is love and generosity. Then notice what comes after: waywardness expressed as scapegoating among them (re-crucifying Christ). Priscilla is arguing that if you're practicing the Jesus Way, then subsequent doctrine will come into focus and it'll exorcise any impulse to solve problems with violence and exclusion.
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Do Not Revere What Resists Liberation (Hebrews 1)
Priscilla begins the letter by arguing Christ is the tuning fork for how to be liberated and liberating creatures, and so goes deeper to the core of the cosmos than Messengers (angels). Leveraging Brandon Johnson's translation, we argue this stretch of the letter means all our systems of meaning and belonging and authority are penultimate, that all these things are bound up with the faithfulness of Jesus.
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Introducing Hebrews – A Radically Anti-Scapegoating Letter
Season Five is here! We're thrilled to begin this discussion of Brandon Johnson's translation of Hebrews. It's an esoteric, confusing, and mysterious text – and a bit of a minefield. We'll be cartwheeling through those mines with you, and we're wildly excited to explore its radical nature. For all that atonement language, who would have guessed it has some of the most explicitly anti-scapegoating passages in the entire canon? Yep, that's where this is going. Tune in, join us for some caffeinated musings, and welcome to the fifth season of Found in Translation!
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The Dude Stays Present
Some translators treat language like objects, as mere hallowed jargon on a leash than a living exchange in the wild. These sacred texts should be a zesty enterprise, but unfortunately there are some who engage in logjamming the Bible with jargon compulsively, seemingly without joy. Their preferred nomenclature make these subversive texts stupefyin', shrouding their liberating power in classist esoterica. The text feels disrupted by these words, like a child who wanders in in the middle of a movie; there's no frame of reference.
And I'm talking about the word meno, here, from koine Gr– aw shush, look at me: I'm ramblin' again. Well, thisahere episode you're about to play is pretty darn innerestin', and in English, too.*
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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*yes, that was all a sagging mass of The Big Lebowski references, taped together with the overconfident bluster of Walter Sobchak.
The Spirit, Scapegoating, Pronouns, and How to Forgive Sins
Yeah, there's a lot in that episode title. But then again, there's a lot of weirdness with the divine Spirit in the Fourth Gospel.
+ How might Spirit language draw us away from our bodies, when it's meant to be about God coming home to them?
+ What does Jesus' lines in John 20 about receiving the Life Breath and then forgiving and retaining sins have to do with our capacity to violently blame and shame minority groups?
+ Why is it more faithful to the sacred text to ascribe she/her pronouns to the Life-Breath when they're he/him in the Greek?
+ If most persons called sinners in the gospels are the exiled and shamed, not the Cosmically Terminally Naughty that Augustine was so snagged up on, what does forgiving sins mean for churches?
Cut to around minute 26 onward for the real fire. :)
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Mary Magdalene's Surprising Connection to the Beloved Disciple
The identity of the Beloved Disciple, and therefore the author of John, has been a topic of low-consequence speculation for centuries. But recent scholarly insights give this mystery a profound gravity: a woman upheld as a pillar in the early church and apostle to the apostles was also the sister of the author of the New Testament's most mystical and intimate stories about Jesus Christ. The Fourth Gospel may be the closest we get to the spirituality and legacy of Mary Magdalene.
And not at all in a DaVinci Code way at all.
Further Reading: "Mary the Tower" by Diana Butler Bass - https://bit.ly/MarytheTower
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Three Thousand Years of Beautiful Tradition
We need to talk about all the little footholds in the text that popular translations give to antisemitism. Sometimes it's de-judaizing early Christianity ("the law" instead of "Torah," etc.). Other times it's hyper-"othering" Jewish folk. This legacy of most translations enabling antisemitism must be faced, condemned, and repented of.
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Bringing It All Together (John 3:16)
We've all seen John 3:16 in weird places – billboards, sporting events, bumper stickers, bracelets – even tattoos! In a tradition like evangelicalism that is so committed to sales and "closing the deal" through religious conversion, it kinda makes sense. Conventional translations of the verse have mixed with evangelical heaven-hell fetishes to leave many of us thinking "going to heaven when you die" is the point of all this. It's right there in that verse, right?
Well, not right. It's way cooler and more interesting than that. Today we bring together many translation commitments across Brandon Johnson's work into this one verse, and see what kind of synthesis emerges. TL;DR – the story is way more interesting than we've been told.
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A weekly-ish exploration of language, liberation, literature, and longing through one fellow’s translation of the Christian scriptures, one chapter at a time.
