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Jul 2017
2h 44m

The Psychology of the Flood

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Lecture 6 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series The story of Noah and the Ark is next in the Genesis sequence. This is a more elaborated tale than the initial creation account, or the story of Adam and Eve or Cain and Abel. However, it cannot be understood in its true depth without some investigation into what the motif of t ... Show More
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