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What is a Story? It is a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence—dinner coming after breakfast, Tuesday after Monday, decay after death, and so on. Qua story, it can have only one merit: that of making the audience want to know what happens next.
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1. Old Testament narratives are not allegories or stories filled with hidden meanings. 2. Old Testament narratives are not primarily intended to teach moral lessons. Their overall purpose is to tell what God was doing in Israel. 3. Old Testament narratives are implicit examples of explicit teaching given elsewhere in Scripture. III. How to ...
- How Do You “Outline” A Story?
- Setting Analysis
- Character Analysis
- Plot Analysis
- Exegetical Conclusions
I have suggested a path towards analyzing the “structure” of a biblical narrative by focusing on setting, characters, and plot. Let’s try this out by analyzing a story that you may have never considered preaching a sermon from – the sordid tale of Judah and Tamar in Genesis 38. Our tendency might be to pass this one by as too steamy for a general a...
We first begin to get a hint as to the story’s significance as we start to analyze the setting. The story-teller gives us some important details in the first verse of the chapter about when and where this story takes place.First, the phrase “at that time” ties this story to what has just transpired, which is the sale of Joseph into slavery (Judah’s...
Who is the protagonistof Genesis 38? You might want to go with Tamar, who is certainly the more heroic figure. But if we define “protagonist” as the character who undergoes the greatest transformation, it must be Judah. In the previous chapter (37:26) it is Judah who suggests selling his brother into slavery. After the events of this story, we find...
What is left to do in our examination of this text? We need to analyze the sequence of events, or the plot. For most biblical stories, and particularly those in the Old Testament, we can usually identify five key plot movements: Exposition, Rising Tension, Climax, Resolution, and Conclusion: 1. “Exposition”is the information given in the beginning ...
Based on this analysis of the story of Genesis 38, we can draw some conclusions about what the passage meant.This is not yet a sermon structure, or even sermonic statements, but they are an underlying framework drawn from the text that will serve as a foundation as we move towards the sermon: Central Idea of the Text: The transformation of Judah Bi...
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The most common type of literature in the Bible is narrative. 40% of the Old Testament is narrative and three fourths of the Bible is Old Testament. This present chapter focuses on how Hebrew narrative works.
Old Testament narrative usually illustrates a doctrine taught elsewhere in Scripture. Narratives record what happened, not what ought to happen every time. What people do in a narrative is not always a good example for us to follow. Most Old Testament characters are far from perfect, and so are their actions.
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Old Testament narratives are inter-related, progressing accounts of God’s purpose for history and how He intends to accomplish it. As the narratives tell what happened (the context for God’s revelation), they also indicate why it matters (the purpose of history).
