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The metanarrative of the Bible is God’s Big Story revealed within it. The story, of course, is really about God. The biblical metanarrative is the story of how God revealed himself to the world through a chosen people. This is the theme of the Bible.
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Discover the Bible’s unified story by reading Scripture in movements and tracing repeated ideas, or links, throughout the pages. Modern Bibles are divided into chapters and verses, but the biblical scrolls were written to be read aloud, meditated on, and memorized as one continuous work.
COURSE OVERVIEW. This course is a brief overview of the great story of God and his purpose for humanity, also known as the biblical metanarrative. This story consists primarily of four major elements: . God’s creation of the world and humanity. Humanity’s rebellion against God. God’s unfolding plan of redemption to restore his creation.
- Key Takeaways
- Applying The Paradigm
- Learning How to Read The Bible
- Recognizing Style and Structure
- A Different Way to Organize Ideas
- The Movements of The Bible
- Narrative Patterning
The structure of the Bible is part of its meaning. The biblical authors wrote in such a way that the organization of the texts communicates as much as the words themselves.The scrolls of the Hebrew Bible weren’t organized by chapters and verses. The biblical authors organized scrolls by large-scale patterning, which we’re calling movements (like the movements of a sy...Patterns of words are one of the primary ways the biblical authors connect ideas within the story of Scripture. We call these repeated ideas hyperlinks.In part one (0:00-14:00), Tim, Jon, and Carissa kick off a brand new undertaking: reading the Bible in movements. It’s a follow-up to our Paradigm series. In short, if we accept the paradigm we’ve been discussing for the last several months, then how do we read the Bible accordingly? How did Jesus, the earliest Christians, and the biblical authors ...
In part two (14:00-19:45), the team discusses the upcoming BibleProject appand a method for learning how to read the Bible while reading the Bible. All our previously released content will not only be housed in the new app, but we’ll also reveal how all our materials and biblical content are connected and interrelated. For instance, when we release...
In part three (19:45-29:30), Tim, John, and Carissa discuss style and structure. Style refers to the variety of literary styles within the collection of scrolls that make up our modern Bibles. (For more on this, check out our How to Read the Bible series.) Recognizing the literary styles within the Bible is like walking into a grocery store. When y...
In part four (29:30-37:45), the team discusses biblical patterns. The scrolls of the Hebrew Bible weren’t organized by chapters and verses. Rather, each “paragraph” had a one-word title that Jewish students would memorize. Our modern chapters and verses are helpful for finding information, but they can also cause confusion when they interrupt story...
In part five (37:45-48:00), Tim, Jon, and Carissa unpack the idea of movements. In discussing movements, our goal is to give you the tools to trace themes through the story of the Bible for yourself. It can be helpful to think of the Bible like a mosaic. When you take a step back, you can see a massive and beautiful picture. When you take a step cl...
In part six (48:00-57:21), Tim, Jon, and Carissa talk about another kind of pattern in the Bible, narrative patterning. Narrative patterning is exactly what it sounds like: the entire structure of a story and the sequencing of words within a story is repeated in a later story, but with key differences. The act of comparing and contrasting the two c...
Stories have a unifying plot conflict, and in the Bible it is the spiritual conflict between good and evil. A host of details makes up this conflict: God vs. Satan, God contending with sinful humanity, good and evil people, and good vs. evil within the individual human soul.
In The Story of the Bible, Carl Laney provides a very practical, foundational overview of what the Bible is, how we got it and how to study it. Its accessible content will be helpful to the lay person, student, pastor and scholar alike. D.L. Moody once said: “The Bible was not given to us simply to increase our knowledge but to change our ...
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Even the non-narrative portions of Scripture are placed within the larger setting of the Biblical Story. The authors of Scripture from Moses onward wrote with the assumed worldview of the previous books that gave a trajectory (plot-line) of where God was moving history. C. The Beauty of Narrative:
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