A Would-Be Solomonic Ruler, with Ron Lindo Jr.: Esther 1

How did you get started doing biblical languages? In

this case, Hebrew? Yeah, my story is interesting because I was an undergrad student at Louisiana College.

And obviously with all undergrad degrees, you're required to take a foreign language.

I did not want to take Spanish.

And one alternative to that was taking biblical Hebrew.

And at the time, I was a math major.

That's part of the story as well.

And so I transitioned and becoming a biblical studies major later.

And so I took Hebrew with Dr. Shepard there, fell in love with the Hebrew language, fell in love with the Old Testament.

And that sort of led me into wanting to study the biblical languages more and also took Greek at the same time.

We didn't even use a textbook for the class.

Oh, really? Yeah, he just did sort of a foreign language or an active language sort of approach where we were reading passages from Genesis, I think, by like the second week.

So he did that sort of living language approach.

That's how we learned Hebrew.

Yeah, I've used textbooks since then, but he did not use one.

And your master's degrees and your Ph.D. work as well.

Yeah, yeah.

I went to the Caskey School of Divinity to do my master's in biblical and theological studies, and then my PhD I got from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Old Testament studies.

You've been writing on

these things for years, so you've got to deal with the language in every book, every article, every step along the way.

Yes,

every step along the way, always looking back at the biblical text and interpreting the Hebrew, looking at the Septuagint, things like that.

Yeah.