Hello friends and welcome to a special edition of theology in the raw. What you're going to listen to in this episode is a recording of a Sunday school course, an adult Sunday school course that I just started teaching at the

church that my family and I attend, a Dry Creek Church.

And this course is sort of an Old Testament survey course. We call it

O.T. Dive. We just started this week. and I'm going to be releasing these episodes on the

podcast now let me just give several caveats here number one I recorded the class lecture discussion on a little lapel mic.

So the audio is not the best and I had my audio guy clean it up the best he could.

It's understandable, but you'll hear noises in the background.

Sometimes you'll hear ruffle on my shirt and even the band starts to practice halfway through.

It doesn't overpower the audio but the audio is not going to be super super clean and the the room is it's an elementary school that we meet at so it's it's not like acoustically made for a Sunday school class so yeah that's

that's that's number one two, I do a lot of kind of writing on the whiteboard,

writing on my PowerPoint slides. I use like an iPad pro where I can write on the PowerPoint slides. I put a lot of

pictures on there. So there's things going on in in the in the lecture that you're not going to be able to see because you're listening

to just the audio of it so but you know I wanted to release this on the podcast for a couple

reasons number one I think there's might be people out there that

would love to understand the Old Testament better. Also, there's people in my Sunday school

class that might have missed a Sunday here and there and will like to make it up.

So I'm going to just record the lectures and release them on the podcast to make them available

to the public for any of you out there that might want to listen to it but also

for those in the class that might have missed might have missed the lecture.

So in this class we discussed a bunch of introductory issues about the Old Testament, how to study

the Old Testament, what is the Old Testament, what isn't the Old Testament.

We looked at how to read biblical literature. The biblical literature is both a

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