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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February 24, 2023 Does Jesus Cleanse Us From Purity Itself?
Lots of talk about cleansing and impurity in the fourth gospel. Lots of talk about cleansing and impurity in, well, in purity culture. Not a good look. Not a good legacy.
Disgust toward humans, it turns out, disgusts humans. Or it should.
Many of us have found ourselves closer to Jesus through being delivered from disgust and purity paradigms toward one another. Yet there all the purity talk is in the Bible. What if we've been translating and imagining those passages backwards? This week, Brandon and Brandon take a look.
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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF
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
February 17, 2023 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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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF
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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35min
February 10, 2023 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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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF
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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32min
February 03, 2023 Longevity is Not the Point
We've been pretty dogged about the point of the Jesus stories is not to go to heaven, and it sure as hell isn't about not going to hell. Jesus stories point to something far better than that.
But what to do about all that eternal life language? That sure seems to direct us toward a living-forever-one-way-or-another fate. Turns out, the greek there is a window into a much more faithful way of telling the Jesus stories: one that's good news for soil and salmon and supernovae and even us human critters!
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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF
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
January 27, 2023 The Semantic Satiation of Glory
Glory to some people means one very specific thing – and at times one suspects how the use glory paints a picture of an insecure-but-big God needing lots of accolades. It's become a religious technical term with serious downsides.
To others, glory is a blurry religious word that carries little meaning – it's a word that's become a sound. Hmmm.
This week the Brandons try to make sense of this sound without ceding it to interpretive traditions that bow to an insecure authoritarian.
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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF
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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51min
January 20, 2023 Rise Up!
Metaphors, Wittgenstein said, have a way of dragging us along. And theologian Leonard Sweet speaks of divine authority in the Bible being found in its stories and metaphors, not merely word-for-word. But what happens when the pattern of a particular metaphor is stripped out of sacred literature? What happens when you bring it back?
Pull a camping chair out into the field with us and let the fresh dawn of light, reveal, sleep, and rise up warm your spiritual imagination to new life.
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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF
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
January 13, 2023 In the Beginning was the Conversation
Is reality a monologue or a conversation? Is the unity of all things singular, or is it generative unity among difference? What lies at the heart of the Divine and of the cosmos: a throne or a table?
OK that may sound grandiose, but this change in John's legendary opening line may lead you to ask similar questions.
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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF
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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28min
January 06, 2023 Introducing the Gospel of John
We're back for season four! As we explore the Gospel According to John (sus name btw), we will be offering shorter episodes that explore the literature thematically rather than sequentially.
In this episode we'll be going over some of the distinctives of the fourth gospel, as well as the legacy it has in each of our own faith journey.
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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF
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 #ethics #liberation
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33min
October 25, 2022 What comes next? Soon you'll see...
We've been busy! Listen in to know what to look forward to.
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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3min
September 26, 2022Galatians 6 – One Final Dunk on the ESV
In the final chapter of Paul's letter to the church in Galatia, as rendered by the Translator himself, Brandon Johnson, we explore:
"y'all" vs "you,"
"Christ's Torah" vs "Law of Christ,"
giving to leaders, and
recap where Galatians has taken us.
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Translation (Google Doc):https://bit.ly/FIT-Galatians-GDoc
Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-Galatians-PDF
Mobile-Friendly without footnotes: https://bit.ly/FIT-Galatians-Mobile
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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 #galatians #religion #spirituality #justice #bibletranslation #ethics #liberation
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42min

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