Aug 18, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 15 segments
Is it essential to learn the biblical languages? Do pastors really need to know Greek and Hebrew to preach the Bible? In this episode of the Kenwood Institute Podcast, Institute director Tom…
Rob PlummerGuestJim HamiltonGuest
Tom SculthorpeHost
So I, um, I knew it when I took my comps that this is the best you'll, you're going to know them.

Um, And maybe there will be a point in the future where that's not the case anymore.

Where like I spend all day studying a Greek text or something like that, but that's just not what I do.

So I'm basically like in maintenance mode, trying to like touch it each day and keep it.

But if you ask me to sit down and write a technical commentary on a book of the Bible, you know, I'd have to look a lot of stuff up.
And so my intense study of the biblical languages goes with which testament I'm in.
So right, you know, in the last several weeks, I've been reading Ruth closely, repeatedly in the original language.
And prior to that, I was in, I was finishing, I was doing First Timothy, and I was immersing myself in First Timothy.

So I, um, I knew it when I took my comps that this is the best you'll, you're going to know them.

Um, And maybe there will be a point in the future where that's not the case anymore.

Where like I spend all day studying a Greek text or something like that, but that's just not what I do.

So I'm basically like in maintenance mode, trying to like touch it each day and keep it.

But if you ask me to sit down and write a technical commentary on a book of the Bible, you know, I'd have to look a lot of stuff up.
And so my intense study of the biblical languages goes with which testament I'm in.
So right, you know, in the last several weeks, I've been reading Ruth closely, repeatedly in the original language.
And prior to that, I was in, I was finishing, I was doing First Timothy, and I was immersing myself in First Timothy.
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