Screenwriters call the event that is pivotal in launching the narrative of a script the “inciting incident.” When looking at the Bible from a screenwriter’s perspective, that inciting incident is the encounter Abraham has with God. Abraham becomes the father of the Jewish people. He leaves the booming metropolis of Ur (located in modern Iraq) and heads toward an unknown destination to which God promises to lead him. The rest of the second scene is the story of how Abraham has a son named Isaac, who has a son named Jacob, who has twelve sons who become the heads of twelve extended families that we refer to today as the twelve tribes of Israel.
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