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

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Bias.

Hey, welcome everyone. Before we get started, two quick announcements, please first.

You probably know by now that Jared wrote another book, blah, blah, blah. He won't stop talking about it.

It's really annoying. Anyway, it's Jonah for Normal People and it's actually really, really good.

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keep that kind of negative talk to yourself. Okay. But now moving on to far more important matters.

I'm teaching a class this Thursday as part of our summer school series and it's called

the error of an errancy. And I found in my travels that where people have to work through a lot of

stuff as they're growing and evolving and developing in their faith is learning ways to look

at the Bible that differ from, let's say, their inherited faith. So that's what we're doing.

And it's this Thursday, July 21st at 8 p.m. Eastern time. Okay, Eastern time. I can't stress that

enough. It will be recorded if you can't make it live. So don't worry about that. And as always,

it's pay what you can. And to sign up for more information, visit us at thebiblefornormalpeople.com

forward slash summer school. Hope to see you there. In numbers, we are dealing here with

something that's more like Israel's self-portrait. Looking back at the past and writing a story

where they portray themselves in a certain way. It's not what we might call a pure historical

account. We are reading here how an ancient tribal Iron Age people, the Israelites, how they

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