A Humble Woman, a Proud Leader, and Luke’s Greek, with Takamitsu Muraoka: Luke 7:36-50

<p>Luke 7 includes a story of a woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her tears and hair. Luke’s narration of this includes Jesus’ exchange with Simon the Pharisee about what she did, what Simon didn’t do, and what God did. How does knowledge of Greek illuminate this passage? Professor Muraoka, who formerly taught at the Universities of Manchester, Melbourne, and Leiden, related his own biography in an earlier episode of Exegetically Speaking. In addition to the publications mentioned in the description of that episode, we note here <a title= "Original URL: https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Hebrew-Biblical-Scholars-Chrestomathy/dp/3447040823/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=Wsj6e&content-id=amzn1.sym.579192ca-1482-4409-abe7-9e14f17ac827&pf_rd_p=579192ca-1482-4409-abe7-9e14f17ac827&pf_rd_r=135-5875519-7798305&pd_rd_wg=IygdF&pd_rd_r=85f231a6-51ab-4fdf-b1e3-34d02e70d48d&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk Click to follow link." href= "https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FModern-Hebrew-Biblical-Scholars-Chrestomathy%2Fdp%2F3447040823%2F%3F_encoding%3DUTF8%26pd_rd_w%3DWsj6e%26content-id%3Damzn1.sym.579192ca-1482-4409-abe7-9e14f17ac827%26pf_rd_p%3D579192ca-1482-4409-abe7-9e14f17ac827%26pf_rd_r%3D135-5875519-7798305%26pd_rd_wg%3DIygdF%26pd_rd_r%3D85f231a6-51ab-4fdf-b1e3-34d02e70d48d%26ref_%3Daufs_ap_sc_dsk&data=05%7C01%7Crebecca.a.larson%40wheaton.edu%7C76c1524bce8449fd7c3808dbdfc84749%7Cb7098c8ac6b24e8bba4c872cf5f00a20%7C0%7C0%7C638349823522773625%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=T%2BCPogKPCCktGpjhWMxODXWy9EaadZwGYq5Y8Rl8fW0%3D&reserved=0"> <em>Modern Hebrew for Biblical Scholars: An Annotated Chrestomathy with an Outline Grammar and a Glossary</em></a>,  (with Paul Joüon) <a title= "https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGrammar-Biblical-Hebrew-Subsidia-Biblica%2Fdp%2F8876536299%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fcrid%3D3ELQQ06VSAN6J%26keywords%3DA%2BGrammar%2Bof%2BBiblical%2BHebrew%26qid%3D1695755263