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This is part three of the psychological significance of the biblical stories lecture series.

The lecture isn't titled, God in the Hierarchy of Authority.

Dr. Peterson will be performing the remainder of the lecture series at the Isabel Bader

Theatre throughout the summer.

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I'm really looking forward to this lecture, not like I wasn't looking forward to the other

ones, but the stories that I want to cover tonight, one of the things that just absolutely

staggers me about them, especially the story of Canaan Abel, which I hope to get to,

is like it's so short, it's unbelievable, it's like 10-11 lines, there's nothing to it

at all.

And I've found that it's essentially inexhaustible in its capacity to reveal meaning, and

I don't exactly know what to make of that.

I think, because I said I was going to take as rational an approach to this issue as

I possibly could, I think it has something to do with this intense process of condensation

across very long periods of time.

That's the simplest explanation, but I'll tell you, the information in there is so densely

packed that it really is, it's not that easy to come up with an explanation for that.

Not one that I find fully compelling.

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