And there is, I want to acknowledge, there is some diversity in the order of the books of the

writings. That last section. That third section. What there's not diversity on is the question of,

you know, what should the sections look like and what should be in each section. In other words,

you don't have attestation in the ancient world to

like a four-part order of the Old Testament, nor do you have attestation to like Genesis being

in the last section or something like that.

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My name is Alex Duke, and with me are my two friends.

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All right.

So, friends, last episode, we finished the Book of Judges, all right?

And next week, so the episode after this, we're going to start the book of judges. All right. And next week, so the episode after this, we're going to

start the book of First Samuel. Now, you know, if you know your Bible well, that might, you

might have heard just like a record scratch sound in your head like, right? Like what? Like, how do we

get, you know, because the way I, the way my Bible is and the way I was taught through songs since Sunday school as a kid was

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, judges, Ruth.

But we're not doing Ruth next because we're going to follow a different order than our English Old Testaments.

Do I have the facts correct so far?

You're right on. And because that's unusual,

right? We've been following the order so far. We thought it would be useful, you know,

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