You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Byas.

Hey folks, before we get started, just a quick announcement, we have a six-part video series

coming up based on my book, How the Bible Actually Works.

So go to thebibofrenormalpeople.com, front slash Bible video, and find out more.

We're really hoping to help create resources so that you can get a group of people together,

probably virtually still, but take some time with other people and go through this six-part video series,

learning about what is the Bible, what do we do with it, and how does it work?

So go to thebibofrenormalpeople.com, front slash Bible video to learn more.

Okay, great.

And our episode today is finding ourselves in the stories of the Bible and our guest

is Amanda and Booby, who is a professor of religion at High Point University in North Carolina.

And this was one of these discussions that just makes you think, oh, I don't really even know what the Bible's doing,

but now I think I do.

It was super fascinating, and it helped me.

It's always fun when we have guests on that teach you something new, and not just new facts,

but just a whole new way of looking at the Bible.

This was one of those.

Yeah, it's not about what happened.

It's about the forming of community through these stories.

That's even its purpose.

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