I've seen a lot of people say that I'm not a fan of the Bible.

As someone with the Bible is, and you might get the answer, it's a book full of laws, rules

for how to please God.

The laws have, throughout history and Judaism and Christianity, have created different crises

of biblical authority.

And there are a lot of laws in the Bible, and if you've ever read any of them, especially

the ones in the Old Testament, they can get really confusing.

There's over 100 laws that get repeated, and if you compare laws that are about the same

thing, you'll start to notice differences.

Differences in the laws.

Well, that's something that's difficult for modern Westerners to understand.

Isn't the law supposed to be some very clear, clean document that uniformly applies to everyone?

For most of human history, and certainly in ancient Newaries, that was not how law worked.

So maybe I'm the one who needs to back up and get a whole different paradigm for what

the Torah is, accounting for the laws and for the narratives.

So today, we talk about the laws in the Bible.

That's when the most rewarding set of conversations we've had in a long time.

Thanks for joining us.

Here we go.

Here we are beginning another conversation.

Yeah, a second conversation.

In fact, so we're talking about how to read the legal or law parts of the Old Testament.

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