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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...

One of the purposes of philology was to identify the genetic relationships between languages so scholars could use data from one language to clarify features of related languages. For example, if English were a dead language, philologists could use information from other Germanic languages to suggest explanations for obscure English words or even grammatical and syntactical features. By contrast, when NT scholars use the word “philology,” they are not referring to the study of comparative languages.
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