The Path of the Righteous Gentile is, no doubt, on the short list of practical, introductory books on universal morality, as handed down from Jewish antiquity, it should only be studied face-to-face with an Orthodox Rabbi. For example, one might think that all thefts, no matter what the value of what is stolen, constitute a capital offense. It's not that simple in practice, given strict rules of evidence, court process, and so on. It is much like the unschooled think the Torah text of "an eye for an eye, etc." codifies lex talonious (retribution); where in fact, it is only for monitary damages, as in "the value of an eye for the value of an eye". In otherwords, the literal text "an eye for an eye" was (and is) never applied literally. The Laws of Noah are full of mitigating circumstances that require contextual explination by an Orthodox Rabbi. The princial problem is the non-jewish reader's theological dictionary is materially different than the Talmudic dictionary for the same terms. If the reader truly wants to understand this book, buy it and present it to an Orthodox Rabbi and ask them to teach it to you, page by page. (They cannot -- well, should not refuse, by the way!) It is their mitzvah to teach these to the Nations.