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All right who is ready to get super nitty gritty into the details of canonization?

Because we're going to be talking a lot about authorship, some theories about the dates, and the compilation, and the sources behind

the Pentatook or the Torah, and it's going to be very detailed. I just want to prepare you if you're a note taker

this would be a great note-taking episode because I have a lot of information to share

with you now of course every theory that we talk about has sub-theories

and variations and all of those things are able to become even more complicated

the further along we go. So I am going to stick with a very high level view so that we can just kind of get the big picture of the pentatuke. So before we get into the details we're going to talk a little bit about

canonization of the Old Testament as a whole and just how to understand the nature of the Old Testament.

So a little review.

The Old Testament was written over the course of about 1,100 years.

It had around 40 different authors, and the order of the Old Testament that we have today

is not the same as the Jewish Old Testament that even Jesus would have had. We talked about in last week's

episode how Jesus had a three-part Old Testament that began in Genesis and ended

in Chronicles.

And so today we have an Old Testament

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