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236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World

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What Drives Modern Minds Crazy?

The laws of leviticus are about telling people how to live properly. And that can involve things like family relations contracts, torts, landownership but it can also involve prayer, ritual and so on. So a lot of the laws are really directed at g people as individuals,. A on how to lead good moral lives in accordance with darmoral god's path for the world, or god's commands.

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