You're listening to The Bible for Normal People, the only God-ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete N's.

And I'm Jared Baez.

Before we jump into today's episode, we wanted to tell you about our October class led by Jared called

The Bible is Not a rulebook.

That's right. I'll be teaching on Tuesday, October 28th from 8 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time,

and I'm going to be talking about how most of us, even the non-evangelicals among us,

have been told the Bible's job is to hand us moral answers. Sometimes that looks like a rulebook,

sometimes that's treating it like a crystal

ball that can tell us our purpose in life. So how can we use the Bible in a way that's helpful

without making it try to be something it was never intended to be? So Jared will look at problems with

the rule book approach, problems with the magic eight ball or crystal ball approach, and practical ways

the Bible can be used in our life, leaving those other approaches behind.

So, mark your calendars for October 28th from 8 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time and go to the Bible

for normal people.com front slash rulebook to sign up. That's the Bible for normal people.com front slash rulebook. Sign up today.

On today's episode, it's just me, Jared, and I'm talking about the Messiah with Sarah

Emmanuel. Sarah is assistant professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University

and co-hosts to the podcast Feminist Talk Religion. Her research attends to the Jewishness

of Christian origins, which is very interesting and plays into what we talk about today,

and the relationship among text, culture, and identity. Hope you enjoy this conversation with

Sarah Emmanuel. This is a Jewish concept, and to be Jewish at this time period is to be a cultural other and to carry with

you thousands of years of oppression and memories of that oppression. And so for a deliverer to come

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