Working for the Word - a Bible translation podcast

If you love the Bible, you should listen to at least a few episodes. Your appreciation for the Word will increase and you will find a greater understanding of it by looking at texts from different angles. If you love language, you will gain so much from these discussions. The variety of languages discussed, the interest in history and social contexts, and the passion for real communication (the whole point of language!) of original ideas is unsurpassed. If you happen to be a Bible-believing, language geek like I am, your household cleaning jobs just became a lot more fun.

This is a great podcast on the extremely important (and often overlooked) great commission task of Bible translation. It also offers a lot of helpful material relating to exegesis and the Biblical languages. I don’t agree with Andrew on everything, but I do share his love for God’s Word and his desire for all of God’s people to have it in their own language.

Andrew’s podcast fills a much-needed niche. While focused on Bible translation, his content varies in a delightful and helpful way. Some episodes show the painstaking research and transparent wrestling to make good decisions for issues that arise in translation consulting. Others involve interviews or portion of audio recordings of experts to tackle specific topics germane to working in the biblical languages. Andrew does a great job “breaking it down” into chunks to walk the hearer step-by-step through the content, and I always walk away having learned something about the beauty of God’s Word and the need to make it available to others.

This podcast is awesome! I’ve listened all the episodes on the divine name so far, but I can tell it is very well researched, informative, and interesting. I have my M.Div and I’ve taken Hebrew and Greek so I’m able to hang with the more technical side of this podcast, but if you don’t know Greek and Hebrew you could still benefit a lot from it. I also love the Hebrew YouTube videos he and his wife have made (that’s how I first heard about their ministry). If you’re familiar with the Bible Project podcast and Mike Heiser’s podcast, I would say this podcast is a bit more technical/niche than Bible Project, but more interesting and practical than Mike Heiser’s which tends to go down wider historical/cultural rabbit trails. UPDATE: I just wanted to update this review after having listened to every episode. And now I can say with confidence that every episode is so good! If I’m voluntarily bingeing this podcast, it has to be good! It inspires me to be a better scholar, pastor, student of the Bible, and follower of Jesus. Also it makes me feel more connected to and caring about the global church than ever before.