
Episode 295: Reading the Bible Differently - Omri Harel, Gil Kidron
Judaism Unbound
00:00
Isaac Is a Wa a Made Up Guy?
i'd love to talk a litle bit about language with the two of you all, because the way that you go about your podcast is really cool on this front. So often what people say about bible is, you just can't understand it if you don't know the hebrew. And so ten like jewish educators, we'll go to their conferences and take from this the importance of hebrew. But the issue there is not only that you have to know hebrew, it's that people made a choice to translate shamaim as heaven, asana, heavens and not sky. It's less fo as opposed to earth. We cannot underestimate how fully we have misunderstood this document,.
Transcript
Play full episode