― The Covenant on Trial ―

Torah

The covenant law, read on its own terms — the standard the whole courtroom runs on.

The Bible Is a Law Book

Scripture is not a devotional book with a few legal words in it. It is a legal book, and the warmth readers feel is the warmth of a covenant kept.

Judge, witness, covenant, ransom, verdict — the vocabulary is a courtroom's, and even the softest, most familiar words turn out to be doing legal work. Read that way, the whole Bible opens as a single trial: a court, a code, a people named on the docket, an acquittal, a walk under testing, a record, and a verdict.

This section reads the covenant law on its own terms — and shows that the gospel itself is written in the book's own language.