By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
Although many people can list some if not all of the rules commonly known as the ‘Ten Commandments’, it may come as a surprise to many non-Christians – and perhaps even to a fair few Christians – that nowhere in the Bible does a definitive list of ‘the Ten Commandments’ actually appear. Actually, that’s not true: there is a list named the ‘ten commandments’ found in the Old Testament, but it’s completely different from the list of rules we known by that name.