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 everybody, before we get started today, we want to let you know this is the last call

to sign up for our September class called the S word happening this week.

This is a one night class and it's taking place on September 27th from 8 to 9.30 p.m. Eastern time.

And it's with Dr. Matthew Crosman, who will explore Paul's uses of sin language.

Who doesn't want to talk about sin exploring Paul's use of sin language in Romans five to eight

and how we might see the effects of sin at play in our world today.

Yeah, and when you sign up for the class, you get the live class, a live Q&A session downloadable class slides

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So for more information and to sign up, go to the Bible for normal people.com front slash sin on today's episode.

We're talking about the inner life of biblical characters with Barbara Leon lie.

Now she is a professor of Old Testament and the director for the pastoral and Chinese ministry program at 10

a.m. in Toronto, Canada. And she's a sought after consultant in the area of teaching and appropriating the Old Testament in post modern times.

Yeah. And she's written a book. We'll get into it in the episode. It came out about 12 years ago.

It's called through the eye window, the inner life of characters in the Hebrew Bible.

Part of this conversation is going to introduce you all to some of the things that are going on in biblical studies.

And so there may be concepts and ideas that you might need to Google.

And I think that's an important part of this process.

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