Welcome to After The Fact and Knowing Faith Many Episode where we look to take a big

question and address it in just a few minutes. Typically the questions we consider will line

up with our larger topic for the season and that is certainly true for our time today.

We are discussing Genesis 12 through 50 on Knowing Faith this season and joining us today

is Dr. Dominic Hernandez. Dr. Hernandez is an assistant professor

of Old Testament interpretation at Southern Seminary. He is also the director

of Spanish language programs at Southern Seminary where there are currently over 660

students studying in Spanish at the seminary. That is incredible. I am so pumped to hear this.

He is also the author of the book Proverbs Pathways to Wisdom. Dr. Hernandez, welcome to After The

Fact. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to be with you.

I am thrilled that you are here. So here is the big question that we are exploring today.

How does understanding leverant marriage help us understand the story of Judah and Tamar?

Well, that is really interesting that you put it that way to be honest with you. So let's go back

to Genesis 38. Okay? Genesis 38, the time of the Patriarchs, we read at the beginning of the

chapter that Judah leaves his family and he goes and decaying in the territory. Now if we just

pause there for a second, our sort of Torah or Pentateuch monitors should be going and we think,

wait a second, leverant marriage doesn't come until many, many years later with Moses.

So what we end up seeing in Genesis 38 is not exactly the leveraged,

leveraged marriage that we see come later in the Torah. We see sort of a predecessor to it was

eventually, let's say, codified later on and maybe we might even say not a good predecessor

because the narrator in Genesis 38 lets us know that it's not very good what happens there.

How that situation is handled is not handled very well. So when we're thinking about trying to make

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