Hey, this is John from the Bible Project. Today on the podcast we are going to finish the

conversation that we began last week. It's a live conversation that Tim and I had in

the Pita's California at the end of last year on Design Patterns. If you haven't listened

to the last episode, I highly recommend you do that. We introduce the idea of design patterns

and walk through one in particular in detail so that you can understand what it is and

how significant it is to understand the Bible as literature. This conversation, we complete

that and we have the video on Design Patterns up on our YouTube channel that you can watch.

It's youtube.com slash the Bible Project. But without further ado, here is the rest of our

conversation from Milpitas, California.

So we are talking about biblical narrative and the sophistication that biblical authors have in

linking together ideas through repetition. We are talking about repetition. And at this point,

to me it kind of seems like, okay, this is pretty simple. This doesn't seem unexpected to me or

it's intuitive. When you have been telling me, oh man, this has been blowing my mind, I didn't

think you were going to talk about how words would repeat. No. No. But you know me, I like to,

we are both the same way. If we want to understand something, we want to build it from the ground up.

Okay, so we will go deeper. We are spunk and down. But it's the first basic, if you don't have this

tool and your tool set, you won't track with anything else that happens. You have to become a skilled

observer of repeated words. That's where you start. That's level one. Correct. Yep.

Let's read. So what we will do is we will go to the next level. And then we will stop again for an

extended Q and R. That can just be open to anything at the end of this. At the end. Sounds good?

Okay, cool. So we will cover more. However many we can do and then we will do that.

All right. Well, but here's, I mean, Robert Alter, he's great. So it's just good summary transition.

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