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In The Universal Story, Dru Johnson shows how Genesis 1–11 is written in a way that informs the rest of biblical history—including the exodus, the kings of Israel, the exile, the Gospels, and early church. Genesis 1–11 presents a story of humanity that seeks to explain the background of every human endeavor. It is the universal story—the story of stories—because it is a story about how all of...

our interests slightly less than jealousy that leads to murder (Gen 4:23), which then leads to exile and wandering (Gen 4:13). The Creator nearly destroys humanity for crimes that are never explicitly revealed to us (Gen 6:5, 11). And though one righteous man, Noah, is chosen to represent humanity reborn from the flood, we only see his children in their worst moments, defying God in the city of Babel. All of these accounts are interwoven with genealogies that connect the storylines together. As modern
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