Found in Translation

By Brandon Johnson & Brandon Rhodes

A weekly-ish exploration of language, liberation, literature, and longing through one fellow’s translation of the Christian scriptures, one chapter at a time.

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November 24, 2023 Blood and Glory (Hebrews 6b-9)
Does God need violence to forgive? Must something die for deviations to be dismissed? Seems like a shitty god that would need violence to be merciful. But thanks to how a certain verse in Hebrews is typically translated, many argue for just that. YUCK. Let's address that head-on and find out that not only is the Divine not shitty like that, but far more on the side of the sacrificed than the sacrificer.
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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-PDF
Mobile-Friendly with endnotes: https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-MobilePD
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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#bible #Christian #theology #hebrews #religion #spirituality #justice #bibletranslation #liberation
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57min
November 17, 2023 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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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-PDF
Mobile-Friendly with endnotes: https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-MobilePD
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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#bible #Christian #theology #hebrews #religion #spirituality #justice #bibletranslation #liberation
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50min
November 10, 2023 The Hidden Weave of Belonging (Hebrews 3-4)
Is our liberation collective or individual? According to the author of Priscilla, it is only individual insofar as it helps us reweave into the sacred fabric of God's belonging through liberation. But you wouldn't know it from most translations! The Brandons focus on how she uses language of hostility to understand this, and what role the ancestors have in that collective liberation.
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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-PDF
Mobile-Friendly with endnotes: https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-MobilePD
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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#bible #Christian #theology #hebrews #religion #spirituality #justice #bibletranslation #liberation
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34min
November 03, 2023 Solidarity, Not Suffering (Hebrews 2)
Ever heard folks casually equate violence with justice? Or suffering and punishment as the necessary response to sin? Or Jesus' crucifixion into an altar to holy bloodshed? Hebrews quickly turns into a minefield of phrases that are typically translated to support retributive and redemptive violence. Who shall deliver us from this body of death, but the Brandons and a whole lot of coffee?
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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-PDF
Mobile-Friendly with endnotes: https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-MobilePD
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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#bible #Christian #theology #hebrews #religion #spirituality #justice #bibletranslation #liberation
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October 27, 2023 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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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-PDF
Mobile-Friendly with endnotes: https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-MobilePDF
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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#bible #Christian #theology #hebrews #religion #spirituality #justice #bibletranslation #liberation
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46min
October 20, 2023 Introducing Hebrews – A Radically Anti-Sacrificial 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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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-PDF
Mobile-Friendly with endnotes: https://bit.ly/FIT-Hebrews-MobilePDF
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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#bible #Christian #theology #hebrews #religion #spirituality #justice #bibletranslation #liberation
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35min
March 24, 2023 What Kind of Story is This?
As we wrap up season four on the fourth gospel, it's time to reflect on how these larger themes come together. And it begs the question: what kind of story is Lazarus/Eleazer telling? Is it one of punishment-avoidance, gnostic escape, antisemitic screed, or embodied cosmic liberation?
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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF-revised
Mobile-Friendly with endnotes: https://bit.ly/FIT-John-MobilePDF
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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#bible #Christian #theology #gospelofjohn #religion #spirituality #justice #bibletranslation #liberation
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49min
March 17, 2023 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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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF-revised
Mobile-Friendly with endnotes: https://bit.ly/FIT-John-MobilePDF
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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#bible #Christian #theology #gospelofjohn #religion #spirituality #justice #bibletranslation #liberation

*yes, that was all a sagging mass of The Big Lebowski references, taped together with the overconfident bluster of Walter Sobchak.
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41min
March 10, 2023The 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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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF-revised
Mobile-Friendly with endnotes: https://bit.ly/FIT-John-MobilePDF
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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#bible #Christian #theology #gospelofjohn #religion #spirituality #justice #bibletranslation #liberation
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56min
March 03, 2023 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
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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF-revised
Mobile-Friendly with endnotes: https://bit.ly/FIT-John-MobilePDF
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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#bible #Christian #theology #gospelofjohn #religion #spirituality #justice #bibletranslation #liberation
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43min

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