The Greatest Story Never Told Oral Tradition and the Development of Messages in the Book of Genesis

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Look at every society in every aspect of the world they have a story of a flood and a specific family or specific person being being one person that was saved from the flood that started new and these are these are societies that had no way to connect with each other they had no way to communicate with each other so how would they all have the same story about a flood and I think 80% of them all have a favorite you know person who will save during the flood you know I'm saying I just well you know there's two possible explanations right up my head one they all come from the same place all these people were in the same place and then spread out and they kept the stores or everyone around the world there was a great flood yes yes you know what I think I think like we've talked about that there was a great flood like I don't know if you can describe it in like biblical terms like the way it's being described in science but they were like there was a period of great flooding or whatever yeah this also would like the younger dryest period ever talks about the Sphinx has been damaged by water people that are Joe Rogan fans will know more about this and I do but that's part of this whole theory to I mean the other thing about the Bible is if people actually read it a lot of it is like such common sense that most people would actually agree with me if they just sat just sat and read it some of them may seem a little harsh because it's like it's ancient it is blunt in a lot of ways favorite part about it but you know like the stuff that the Bible calls wrong like it would be kind of hard to argue even from a sacred perspective that it isn't wrong.

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The stories in the book of Genesis.

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You can go to the Book of Genesis, verse one, chapter 26. The verse says, let's make man in our image, not my are as in plural, you know, and that starts the process of like, oh, wait a minute, we are who is that?

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and to think these morons are spending 50 grand a year at Columbia that's right absolutely free guys I personally recommend you sign up for American citizenship and it's declined with Victor Davis Hanson in this eight lecture course.

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one of his first really big works was a series of lectures he gave on the book of Genesis

And I think the story is he just thought that, you know, maybe it was possible that this kind of perennial text that people have been reading for more than 2000 years, was there a way it might speak to a wide audience if he just gave it his best shot at trying to make sense of it?

I think the story was that he just booked a theater for 16 nights or something and it sold out.

And I think there's actually quite an important moment in Dr. Peterson's own thinking through what his own, you might say, what his own vocation is and what the work of our time is.

There are all kinds of wonderful treasures, things figured out in the past, great books, works of art, ways of understanding cultural, let's say, cultural wisdom that it's just there. It's just there.

And I think what I've tried to do at least is trying to approach things from that angle.

I think Exodus does give us really fundamental language of the landscape of our own experience, right? We all in some sense are living in states of longing or you might say the desert, a place where we're trying to find our way, we're confused, we're battering around, we're lonely, we're alienated, whatever. We got our personal issues and so on. And then the question is, well, how do you make sense out of that? And that I think is in a way what the book of Exodus is itself at least taken historically by peoples of various faiths to be a kind of revelation about how one can move from that state.

And it doesn't come down just to ourselves, by the way either.

that these works that human beings have found transformatively insightful to make sense of their own lives for 2000, 3000 years, that they can still speak today.

And rather than simply tell people what they're about, what happens if we just have a conversation about it? Does that come alive in a way that it then comes alive for us?

And my experience in this last week and a half, a week or so that we've been here is that this conversation, which I would say has very low to no levels of ego, which is sincerely just trying to figure out this amazing text and see what we can understand about it has been a really beautiful and memorable experience.

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In the Torah, in the book of Genesis, the first thing that's not good is a person being alone.