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by Andrew Case
It's been said that people don't want to know: 1) how sausages are made, 2) how bibles are translated. In this podcast we bravely talk about the latter, go deep into biblical studies, and seek to treasure and understand the Bible together. It's for people who want to get nerdy about Scripture and for those who want to understand how their translations came to be. Everything from history to Hebrew, we're on a quest to learn more and make beautiful translations of God's Word. We believe the Bible is a unified, God-breathed, God-centered, hope-giving book, sweeter than honey, pointing to Jesus.
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- 5 days ago36 min
Introduction to "God's Word Is Not Bound: Copyright & the Stewardship of Scripture"
Read the text.Get the free book.As Paul sits in a Roman prison cell, he writes, “Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound in chains as a criminal. But God’s Word is not bound” (2 Tim 2:8-9). Even though he may be imprisoned, God’s Word cannot be. Put all the preachers in chains, but the message of Christ remains free. Unshackled.Little did Paul know that the schemes of the Enemy would one day shift from binding the hands and feet of Christians to binding the Word—with legal fetters. Evil emperors who cast saints into dungeons would be replaced centuries later by Christians who imprison the Word behind bars of jurisprudence. And no matter the stated reason for this imprisonment of Scripture, the outcome remains the same: the Word does not run freely.The Church can no longer declare with Paul, “God’s Word is not bound!” Instead, followers of Christ cower before copyright claims, subservient to man’s restrictions on what God himself authored. It may be God-breathed, but men have arrogated it, threatening anyone who might want to unbind it and let it fill the earth as the waters cover the sea. Preachers call it “God’s Word,” but mere humans insinuate that it is theirs with the phrase “all rights reserved.”In our modern Church, Paul might have said the opposite of what he wrote so long ago. Looking around at the Bible publishing landscape, he may have written, “Remember Jesus Christ, as I preached in my gospel, which I am free to proclaim. But God’s Word is bound in chains as a criminal.”
- 1 weeks ago1h 5m
Copyright as a Perversion of Justice & Corruption of Bible Translation
Read or download this chapter or the whole work: God's Word Is Not Bound.Is copyright really a form of property, and is copying actually theft? In this chapter of God’s Word Is Not Bound, I examine copyright through Scripture and natural law and argue that intellectual property turns justice on its head. Biblical property rights exist to prevent conflict over tangible things: if someone takes your sheep, land, or money, you no longer possess what was taken. But ideas and words work differently. They can be copied and shared without depriving anyone of them. The chapter argues that Scripture nowhere treats copying words or ideas as theft and even presents the copying of God’s Word as something to be encouraged. When copyright is applied to Scripture, the problem becomes especially serious: human beings use state power to restrict the copying, translation, recording, and distribution of revelation that ultimately belongs to God. Rather than accepting copyright simply because it is legal or customary, Christians are challenged to ask whether the state has any God-given authority to manufacture ownership rights over information in the first place, and whether placing “all rights reserved” over God’s Word is really stewardship or a perversion of justice.
- 2 weeks ago13 min
A Resource You've Never Heard About
Miqra according to the Masorah (מקרא על פי המסורה) is a Hebrew edition of the Tanakh in a digital online format under an open license. It is based on the Aleppo Codex and related manuscripts, and corrects the thousands of spelling errors in the Leningrad Codex, while transparently documenting the changes and sources.Read the English introduction at length.Read the documentation of the changes.Mikraot Gedolot.If you'd like to talk about volunteering to help with this podcast, please write to me at workingfortheword@gmail.com.
- Jul 16, 202641 min
A Legal Guide for Ministries Desiring to Release Scripture Freely
In the last episode, we covered the dark origins of international copyright law, as well as a very short and condensed argument that copyright law constitutes a perversion of justice. So, if you haven't yet listened to that episode, I would strongly encourage you to go back and do so before continuing on with this one.This episode will focus on a practical to-do list explaining what organizations will need to accomplish before they can comply with this complex web of international regulations before they release Scripture as public domain. Also, I will provide a link to a Word document that has generic form templates that organizations can use with their attorneys to get started with policy changes and the right things that everybody will need to sign—both volunteers and employees—to make sure that nothing inadvertently gets locked under automatic copyright traps.Of course, every organization's legal counsel will need to affirm these things and probably tailor them to specific regions as needed. I hope this is useful and helpful for everyone. Get ready for a wild ride, because what you're about to hear will surprise most of you.Bibliography.Ministry generic form templates doc.website | books | x | music | Hebrew | articles | facebook | contact
- Jul 12, 202652 min
The Dark Origins of International Copyright Law
This is the beginning of two episodes that deal with the legality issues that organizations face when they want to obey Scripture and make Scripture free. This has come about based on some conversations I've had with YWAM on the possibility of their organization switching to a public domain publishing policy for their translated Scripture. As you may know, YWAM has become heavily invested in Bible translation in recent years, and they are doing a lot of work around the world. I would love to see them lead the way in showing the translation organizations that it's not only possible to release Scripture as public domain, but it is blessed. It is more blessed to give than to receive.Now, to set the stage for the complex international copyright legality issues, we have to understand a few things that this podcast episode is gonna cover. The first is that copyright and patent law are a perversion of justice, far from a stance of natural rights and biblical law. Each Christian needs to decide, when they're faced with a perversion of justice, whether they will follow that or whether they will walk in the footsteps of the Hebrew midwives, Rahab, Moses's parents, Obadiah hiding the prophets, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Esther, Mordecai, and others, and decide not to cower before the twisting of morality by current sinful rulers. Each organization will have to decide how much they actually want to bow before the complex web of unreasonable, absurd, foolish, and unjust copyright laws that serve to strangle the free sharing of truth in the world and keep down poorer countries who are unable to comply with this web of regulations and high costs.Nevertheless, it is good for everyone to understand the dark origins of international copyright law that began with greed, selfishness, censorship, and disregard for human flourishing. Once we have established this history and the many points in the development of this legal structure, the next episode will cover exactly what every ministry would need to do to fully comply with the laws before they release Scripture as public domain.This may sound shocking and absurd—that you need permission to release something freely—but that is actually the case because of how messed up these laws are. This episode will explain how it became that way. You'll learn a lot, as I did.Please share it far and wide so that more Christians become educated on this important issue that affects the Great Commission in a massive way. Once an organization has listened to this episodes and the next one, they should be equipped to move toward unbinding the Word of God. It's my hope and prayer that many organizations choose to bow to the command of Christ and give Scripture completely free of restrictions, rather than bow to profit margins, to the spirit of the age, and to an unjust regime that has destroyed the progress of human knowledge.Conversation generated with NotebookLM.website | books | x | music | Hebrew | articles | facebook | contact
- Jul 11, 202645 min
LangQuest - A New App for Oral Bible Translation - with Ryder Wishart
In this episode I had the privilege of interviewing my friend Ryder Wishart whose organization has launched a new, free mobile app that facilitates recording and managing oral Bible translations, especially where there is no internet.Learn more about LangQuest.Learn more about Ryder.website | books | x | music | Hebrew | articles | facebook | contact
- Jun 27, 202615 min
Life Update
Links mentioned:https://doreancon.orghttps://globalbibletools.com
- May 24, 202641 min
The History of the Gender Neutral Controversy in Bible Translation
Sources: https://www.bible-researcher.com/gender.htmlThis episode was generated by NotebookLM and curated by Andrew Case.In this episode we cover the complex and often contentious debate regarding gender-inclusive language in biblical translation, exploring the divergent philosophies that have shaped modern versions like the TNIV and the 2011 NIV. We examine the basic principles of the Committee on Bible Translation (CBT), which allows for "non-offending renderings" of ancient patriarchal expressions as long as the original intent is not distorted. This is contrasted with the Colorado Springs Guidelines (CSG), a consensus statement by evangelical leaders who argue that overusing gender-neutral language can become an instrument of distortion and that "man" and masculine pronouns should be retained to preserve the sanctity of the text.The discussion also highlights the Roman Catholic perspective, specifically the Vatican's Liturgiam Authenticam and the norms presented by Cardinal Ratzinger, which demand "maximum possible fidelity" to the original language and prohibit the systematic substitution of masculine terms for God or the Trinity. We delve into the technical linguistic arguments presented by scholars like Michael Marlowe and Vern Poythress, who caution against confusing lexical semantics with pragmatics; they argue that just because a biblical statement applies to both men and women does not mean the individual words used—such as aner (man) or adelphoi (brothers)—lack a specific male meaning component. Finally, we explore the theological implications of these translation choices, considering how the removal of male-marked language may obscure biblical doctrines of covenantal representation and the specific role of the father as a symbol of God's fatherhood.
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It's been said that people don't want to know: 1) how sausages are made, 2) how bibles are translated. In this podcast we bravely talk about the latter, go deep into biblical studies, and seek to treasure and understand the Bible together. It's for people who want to get nerdy about Scripture and for those who want to understand how their translations came to be. Everything from history to Hebrew, we're on a quest to learn more and make beautiful translations of God's Word. We believe the Bible is a unified, God-breathed, God-centered, hope-giving book, sweeter than honey, pointing to Jesus.
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