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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

The Call to Abraham

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.634.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2017

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

Lecture 9 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. In this lecture, I tell the story of Abraham, who heeds the call of God to leave what was familiar behind and to journey into unknown lands. The man portrayed in the Bible as the father of nations moves forward into the world. He encounters the worst of nature (famine), society (the tyranny of Egypt) and the envy of the powerful, who desire his wife.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson podcast.

0:05.8

You can support these podcasts by donating to Dr. Peterson's Patreon, the link to which

0:10.3

can be found in the description.

0:12.8

Dr. Peterson's self-development programs, self-authoring, can be found at selfauthoring.com.

0:28.1

So I've been thinking this week about doing this once a month on a continuing basis.

0:44.5

So I think if I do that, I think it will be here, although it's harder to rent this theater

0:48.6

during the academic year, but if it isn't here, it will be somewhere else.

0:53.2

Because I'd like to continue doing this, I'm learning a lot from doing it, and once

0:58.0

a month would really be good, because then I could really do the background work.

1:03.8

And I could probably do that for a couple of years, because obviously this is going

1:07.0

very quickly.

1:08.4

But that's okay.

1:09.4

You know, I mean, it shouldn't go any faster than it can go, and that's how it seems

1:13.8

to me anyways.

1:15.5

So this has been a very steep learning curve for me with regards to these stories, because

1:26.4

I understand them very well.

1:28.4

And I've got better at using the resources online to help me do my background investigation.

1:33.6

I have a lot of books, and some of you may have noticed that online I posted a conversation

1:40.4

I had with Jonathan Pazio and his brother, Matthew.

1:46.1

I hope it's Matthew.

1:47.1

I renamed, escaped me so badly, but I believe that's right.

1:50.0

He just finished a book on the Bible.

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