Sadly, sin is central to the Bible’s story. If the goal of a story is to solve a problem, then ‘sin constitutes the problem that God resolves: the conflict carries us from the third chapter of Genesis to the closing chapter of Revelation’.1 With few exceptions, sin mars and defaces every chapter of the Bible after Genesis 2 and before Revelation 21. The goal of this essay is to consider what the first five books of the Bible—known as the Pentateuch or Torah or the Law—have
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