What's up everybody, I'm Matt, this is The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast, and I want

to talk again about storytelling structure.

I'm really into this.

It's so much fun to read people who've put tremendous amount of thoughts into how stories

happen, how characters work, how heroes work, what the different types of heroes are, and

how supporting characters work, and what the different types of supporting characters

are.

And dating all the way back to the dawn of storytelling time, they're just certain archetypes.

It's because people don't really change that much.

We get new technology, we get new pressures, new concerns, but we've all got death nipping

at our heels.

We've all got time and memory nipping at our heels.

We've all got opportunity making us feel optimistic and excited about the future.

We all know or seek love and to know and to be known.

We all have some inherent appreciation for beauty and art, and we're all well aware

of how hard it is to make beauty happen and preserve it, and how easy it is to break

it.

We understand tragedy, we understand loss, and so these characters across cultures and

across time really do take on a lot of similarities and no surprise here.

The Bible is no exception to this.

When you're a kid, you most easily relate to the hero character in every story.

Part of that's because you're probably consuming simpler stories where the good guy fights

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