Hebrew Voices #157 – SBL Reactions 2022: Part 1

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Hebrew Voices #157 – SBL Reactions 2022: Part 1

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Nelson: One of the things Keith is always hammering is, “Language, history, context. Language, history, context.”

Nehemia: Shalom and welcome to Hebrew Voices. I'm here today with Rabbi Dr. David Moster, who has a PhD from Bar Ilan University. He has Rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University, and he’s the director of the Institute of Biblical Culture, which is BiblicalCulture.org. Shalom David. I’m also joined by Nelson Calvillo, who is a research assistant at The Institute of Hebrew Bible Manuscript Research. Shalom Nelson.

Guys, thanks for joining me. Today we're going to do SBL reactions! I'm excited! David, before we get started, tell us about your Institute of Biblical Culture. What is that?

David: Thanks for asking. I’m the director of the Institute of Biblical Culture, which mostly means that I've been teaching a lot of Biblical Hebrew. I teach Biblical Hebrew classes, they start every few months, and what we basically do, Nehemia, is we start with the Alef-Bet, the alphabet, people who know absolutely nothing - you could know stuff, it doesn’t preclude you - but if you know absolutely nothing, you can come and join, and study the Alef-Bet, and by the end of one year, in ten months, we read the entire Book of Ruth in Hebrew.

Nehemia: Wow.

David: And the students give their own translations.

Nehemia: Wow.