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Hello and welcome to another episode of Ask NT Write Anything, the program where we answer your questions on Jesus,

the Bible and the Life of Faith. I'm Mike Bird from Ridley College, joined here in memory old

London with none other than. Tom Wright from Wycliffe Hall in Oxford. And I'd love me some time

in London where the Tesco's never close. There's the wonderful drizzle in the street. And Tom,

we've got some good questions this week. We do. We do indeed. And quite taxing ones.

Yeah, indeed. Things that you might have a whole tutorial on if you were teaching in the university.

Our first question for this week is from Lexie Hibbard of Leeds in the UK. And this is her question. She says,

My Bible in a Year podcast from Premier yesterday actually presented me with laws about if a woman

commits adultery and Nazarites. So I have two questions. What should I make of the lack of any consequence for the men

involved in adultery compared to the public humiliation of women via the cursed water, whether they

did it or not? And second, why would anyone decide to be a Nazarite? What did it mean to them?

So there we go. That's our question from Lexi. Tom,

let's take it up first with adultery. I mean, do women get a little bit of a raw deal in the Bible?

Like, you know, when there's adultery, like blame the Jezebel. Well, you could read some texts like

that, and no doubt many feminists have critiqued the presentation

of women in the Bible on many accounts.

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