The Biblical authors were incredibly intentional about the shape of every scroll in the Bible.

Which stories go where?

What details are given in a story and when are those details given?

Everything meticulously organized.

And this wasn't just a fun literary game to play.

The organization of a Biblical book goes hand in hand with the meaning and the message

the Biblical authors want to get across.

To read the Bible well, we need to understand Biblical structure.

Now you're probably aware of one specific way to organize the Bible.

Chapters and Verses.

It's very useful.

It's also important to recognize that that is not a division system original to these

scrolls.

So chapters and Verses annotations in any of the original Biblical scrolls.

Which begs the question, how were Biblical scrolls organized?

Each of those scrolls has been organized by their authors to have a series of larger scale

movements that organize the flow of the story into just a handful of main pieces.

That's right, movements.

In the Hebrew Bible, every scroll is broken into three, sometimes four, large movements.

A movement of scripture is a collection of stories that all work together.

For example, first movement in the Bible is roughly Genesis 1 through 11.

And there you've got some great stories.

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