Hey everybody, welcome to the Bible Project Podcast.

My name is Tim, one of the co-founders of the Bible Project, and you are the wonderful

person that you are.

Welcome to the podcast.

Normally, my partner and co-founder of the Bible Project, John Collins, does these introductions.

This is actually my first one ever.

So, I'm a little bit nervous, but there you go.

I'm just going to pretend like I'm talking to you, even though I can't see anybody.

Anyway, this is episode three of a four-part series that John and I did with a whole set

of conversations we had in our How to Read the Bible series, both of conversations and

videos that are coming out on our YouTube channel.

Here, these four conversations are about a feature of biblical narrative that we're calling

design patterns.

The first two episodes were actually done live before a live audience where we did

Q&A.

I really recommend listening to the first two episodes of this series on design patterns.

This episode and the one following won't make a lot of sense without those previous

episodes.

But basically, we're talking about the way that biblical authors have designed and coordinated

different stories across the whole of the Bible and how they have embedded repeated key

themes and words in all these different stories so that as you read through the Bible

over and over and over again, you start to connect the thread and are able to follow

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