Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, well this is going to be the first of a three-part series called Datorra Crash Course.

It represents one long evening of lectures that I did when I was a teaching pastor at Dorovop

many years ago.

My desire to do this, Datorra Crash Course, came out of a conviction that grew over a number

of years of teaching the Bible and pastoral ministry.

I came across so often people having deep misunderstandings of Jesus and what he was

all about.

I found that those misunderstandings were typically rooted, not just in misunderstanding

him, but not understanding the larger story that Jesus was a part of and that Jesus saw

Himself contributing to and fulfilling and bringing to its climactic fulfillment.

And so it's kind of like if you were to not watch the very first Star Wars episode

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