Preaching and Teaching Narrative Passages in the Pentateuch

Peter Vogt provides the following “strategies for communication” in preaching and teaching narratives in the Pentateuch.

• Let the story speak for itself
• Tie in contemporary parallels to the biblical story
• Communicate literary artistry
• Allow for ambiguity

Peter T. Vogt, Interpreting the Pentateuch (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2009), 172–78.