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Old Testament Law for Christians: Original Context and Enduring Application is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Old Testament law is foundational for our understanding of the Bible, but for many it remains some of the Old Testament’s most foreign and exotic material. This book by a leading evangelical expert in biblical law helps readers understand Old Testament law, how it functioned in the Old Testament, and how it is (and is not) instructive for contemporary Christians. The author explicates the...

The priests were responsible for teaching “the people of Israel all the statutes that the LORD has spoken to them by Moses” (Lev. 10:11; cf. Deut. 33:10), and Moses commanded the priests and elders to read “this law” (torah; possibly Deuteronomy) to the assembled Israelites every seven years at the Festival of Booths (Deut. 31:9–13).41 All Israelites, including the judges, were to be informed by the law as a whole, and they were to act in accordance with its principles and ethos of justice. Therefore,
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