This is John at the Bible Project, and this week on the podcast Tim and I finish a conversation

on how the Bible is ancient Hebrew meditation literature.

Last week we talked about the story of Kane and Abel that you find on page 4 of the Bible.

It's a classic story that highlights the Hebrew narrative style.

It's short, confusing, and big US and for millennia people have studied and meditated on it.

This week Tim and I continue our conversation on the Kane and Abel story,

and we discuss why meditation literature encourages this type of wrestling.

So why do we use the word meditation?

It's actually the way the Bible portrays the ideal reader of this kind of literature.

If you think about things like the Kane and Abel narrative,

you're going to bring good things into your life, and that's what the Bible is designed to do.

Thanks for joining us. Here we go.

Do you want to summarize right now if you want me to try to?

I think we could summarize while looking at Psalm 1.

Oh good, great. But before we get to Psalm 1, can we just blitz through a couple more things in Genesis

for? Because we're here and we're saying it's genius.

Okay. Let's just continue on.

So we got to the point where Kane is angry and downcast.

We got to this really brilliant God statement of do what is right and is crushing your door.

It desires to have you, but you must rule over it. That's verse 7.

And we talked about that.

All right.

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