And, Advent starting in two days, I'll give you the next example of using primal narrative to read other texts:
As Israel told the story with imaginative attentiveness to detail, the primal narrative became handled and illuminated in many different ways over a long period of time in many different circumstances. In the same way, for the early church, it seems probable that different communities in different places told the stories in different ways. The communities related to Matthew and Luke knew and valued the birth stories as the community of Mark did not. Each community arranged the materials differently to serve its own purposes and each had different memories about Easter.
The expanded narrative is a collection of all the ways in which the primal narrative has been perceived and handled.....
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