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Welcome to the NakedBible Podcast, episode 74, Leviticus, chapter 11.

I'm your layman, Prairie Strickland, and he's the scholar.

Dr. Michael Heiser, hey, Mike, how you doing this week?

Very good, very good.

What we get to do, clean and unclean animals and foods today.

Yeah, I've got some questions about this one, so I'll be anxious to hear what you'd

say.

Yeah, this is something that doesn't have a neat explanation, but I'm going to basically

go through the explanations you'll run into in the academic literature and how they're

argued and some of the problems associated with them.

Again, my own response to this is that, hey, if one explanation doesn't work for everything,

maybe the right thing you do would just be to say, well, maybe it's a little bit of a

couple of these things that is behind this.

There's some rule in Bible interpretation for Leviticus 11 that says we have to have

one unifying theory.

Why can't the rules emerge out of a couple of ideas?

Again, that's the way I'm going to approach the topic, but Leviticus 11, I'm not going

to read through all of this about the clean and the unclean and the clove and hooves and

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