5.101: Why Are There So Many Things that Can Get You Executed in Leviticus? Isn’t that a Bit of Overkill?

Co-hosts Katie & Kathryn speak with Cory Driver, asking, "Why Are There So Many Things that Can Get You Executed in Leviticus? Isn't that a Bit of Overkill?"

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Welcome, to season five of Enter the Bible, a podcast in which we share “Everything You Wanted to Know about the Bible…but were afraid to ask.”

In episode 2 of season 5, the Assistant to the Bishop for Emerging Ministers & Ministries for the Indiana-Kentucky Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, guest Cory Driver joins our hosts Katie Langston and Kathryn Schifferdecker.

Today our theologians will be answering the question, “Why Are There So Many Things That Can Get You Executed in Leviticus? Isn’t that a Bit of Overkill?”

Show notes

Biblical books and passages mentioned

  • Genesis
  • Exodus
  • Leviticus 10
  • Matthew
  • Acts

Topics, themes and figures mention

  • Case law
  • Jewish Religious Culture
  • Nadab and Abihu
  • High Priest
  • Moral Sin
  • Castration
  • Incinerated
  • Jack Miles
  • Hazmat Suit
  • Prophet Jeremiah
  • Moses and Aaron
  • Midrash
  • Judah and Joseph
  • Prince of Egypt: Movie
  • Capital Punishment
  • Eugene H. Peterson and the Message Bible translation

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Today's Episode Hosted By

Kathryn Schifferdecker
Katie Langston

Joined by

Cory Driver

Featuring:

Cory Driver

Cory Driver

Cory Driver is Assistant to the Bishop for Emerging Ministers and Ministries in the Indiana-Kentucky Synod of the ELCA. He serves as an adjunct professor at Luther Seminary and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. He is the author of the forthcoming “She is More Righteous Than I”: Re-Reading Gender and Trauma in the Patriarchal Narratives of Genesis, as well as Life Unsettled: A Scriptural Journey for Wilderness Times.

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Hosted By:

Kathryn M. Schifferdecker

Kathryn M. Schifferdecker

Kathryn M Schifferdecker came to Luther Seminary as an assistant professor of Old Testament in 2006. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Schifferdecker was associate pastor for five years at Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale, Wisc., before coming to Luther. Schifferdecker is a frequent contributor to workingpreacher.org, Word & World and the author of Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job (Harvard University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a commentary on the book of Esther.

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Katie Langston

Katie Langston

Katie Langston is a doubter by nature and a believer by grace. She grew up Mormon in a small Utah town and still isn't sure she fits in anywhere sophisticated enough to have a Target. She's the author of Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace, an acclaimed spiritual memoir about her conversion to orthodox Christianity. Katie works as the director of digital strategy for Luther Seminary's innovation team, where she oversees digital projects aimed at cultivating vibrant Christian spirituality in a post-modern, post-Christian cultural context.

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