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Hello everyone.

Thank you again for showing up.

So tonight we're going to finish off the story of Noah and also the story of the Tower

of Babel.

And I don't think that will take very long.

And then we're going to turn to the Abrahamic stories.

And they're a very complex set of stories.

And the stories of Moses, which are extraordinarily well developed, there's a whole sequence

of them.

Multiple stories are joined together.

I found them very daunting.

They're very difficult to understand.

And so I'm going to stumble through them the best that I can.

I would say that's probably the best way to think about this because they have a narrative

content that's quite strange.

I was reading a book, well doing this called The Disappearance of God that I found quite

helpful.

And the author of that book argues that one of the things that happens in the Old Testament

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