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We rarely think about the way languages work because communicating in our native tongue comes so naturally to us. The Bible was written in ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek—languages no modern reader can claim to have a native understanding of. A better understanding of how language works should help us understand the Bible better as we seek to discern the original intent and meaning of each...

Biblical scholars have been studying language for nearly as long as there has been a text. Most of these studies fall more properly under philology, not linguistics—a distinction we address below and more extensively in chapter 5 (see “Comparative Philology”). Modern linguistics developed out of research on language from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but biblical scholarship did not incorporate
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