One of the main ways that we understand the world, if not the main way that we understand

the world, is through Metaphor by describing one thing as another thing, mapping on the

features and identity of something that we know to help us better understand something

that we don't yet fully comprehend.

The world's create an expanding web of associations and comparisons.

Characteristic of Metaphor is a fullness of significance that is not evident in other

words, a surplus of meaning that extends beyond a word's dictionary definitions.

Every culture has shared Metaphors that become a common set of explanations that we draw

from again and again to make sense of the world and to produce new thoughts.

In the last episode, we referred to this as the encyclopedia of production, like a database

of images that we draw from to try and understand the world together.

And every culture has this, but not every culture uses the same set of Metaphors.

In fact, the Bible has a few foundational Metaphors that will seem strange to us, and

so we've got to become familiar with them.

But where do we start?

Almost all of the poetry of the Bible is stopped with an image encyclopedia that was given

to them by the Torah, first five books of the Bible, specifically the Book of Genesis.

Now in this episode, you can hear Tim say that he has four foundational metaphors that

he wants us to walk through.

In the end, we only get to talk through two of them.

In this episode, we're going to tackle the first one.

A biblical metaphor to help us understand the human ideal.

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