The Book of Job may prove to be the most interestingly complex works in the collections of The Bible. Part frame tale, part poetic masterpiece, part critique of neighboring Ancient Near-Eastern philosophies, this book has been inviting readers for over 1000 years to wrestle with some of life's toughest questions. We also have a strange moment where God and The Devil have a conversation.

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In this episode we look at the motif of creation, decreation, destruction, and rebirth and how it applies to a nation. As we have seen, this Bible story flips the attempt to commit evil upon an entire nation on its head, and uses the circumstance to give birth to a new culture entirely.

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Continuing in a study of destruction and rebirth, this episode examines the pattern and motif and how it plays out in the story of Noah and The Flood. Source text Genesis 6:1-9:4.

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As a whole, The Bible operates in movements of Creation and Destruction, Destruction and Rebirth, ultimately leading us the the stunning conclusion than Heaven and Earth are always desiring to meet and become one spectacular place. In the midst of all of this, a character named "YHWH" or "God" is always trying to bring order to the chaos the created world brings into paradise.

In this episode, we look at the origin of Heaven and Earth overlapping and in The Garden of Eden, along with the implications and patterns that follow.

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We delve into some heavy-hitting student and listener questions on this fun, quick, Q and A episode.

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This episode completes our study of The Monomyth or Hero's Journey as termed by Joseph Campbell. We take a detailed look at the life of Jesus of Nazareth, and the similarities and differences between his narrative and the stories of Abraham, Moses and David.

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Luke 2, Matthew 4, John 2:1-11, Matthew 20:17-34, Isaiah 53:3-12, John 19, I Peter 3:19, Mark 16:14-20

In this episode we look at David's narrative arc and how it lines up with The Monomyth or Hero's Journey.

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This episode takes a look at archetypal connections between Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and narrative arcs in The Bible with a specific focus on Campbell's "Monomyth" aka The Hero's Journey.

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In this episode, we examine the narrative arc of Moses. Is this a true hero's journey, or is there more to it? Moses, in one sense could be the first epic hero in history. But what if he is something entirely different?

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This episode looks at The Hero's Journey in The Abraham Story from Genesis.

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