Hey there, welcome to the Bible Project Podcast.

I'm Tim and you are the wonderful person that you are.

Welcome to the podcast.

Usually the person who does these introductions to our podcast is John.

He's my co-founder in the Bible Project.

But he's out of town this week and so you get me instead.

This episode is actually part four of a four-part conversation that John and I had in our

How to Read the Bible series and specifically we're focusing on design patterns in biblical

narrative.

So if you haven't listened to the first three episodes, I really recommend you do so.

Most of this conversation won't make a lot of sense without listening to those previous

three.

If you've been listening, you've gotten the basic concept that biblical authors have designed

stories across the whole Bible in a coordinated way so that they share key vocabulary and

themes.

And this is the part of how the Bible was written as a unified whole to follow the thread

of key arguments and theological themes that are developing from beginning to end.

And so for me personally, this has been a revolutionary set of skills that I have just

really been honing and learning more about from a community of scholars and friends

that I'm a part of just in the last couple years.

It's really turned the way I read the Bible into surprising new territory that I just

never saw coming.

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