Epic Telling 2024
"Wilderness Wanderings"
What will we experience together?
A high point of any Festival of Biblical Telling is the performance of the "Epic Telling.” This is an energizing team-telling that gives us a chance to experience a large portion of scripture together, as told by a variety of tellers. It is such a gripping event that it has come to be known as Epic.
How do I take part in the telling?
Check the chart to decide which part you would like to learn and tell by heart.
Tap the button above the chart to fill out and submit your top three choices. We’ll let you know your assigned part within 48 hours.
Learn your part by heart and video-record yourself telling it. Video Guidelines will be available.
The actual performance of the Epic will be a broadcast of our fully edited Epic Telling video. Invite your friends and family!
How do I prepare?
Learn the passage by heart and be ready to tell it on video without prompts or reading the page.
Our practice is to use the NRSV or the Common English Bible, so please make sure to learn from one of those translations.
As a general rule when learning the passage by-heart, aim for about 95% story content accuracy and 75% word accuracy. It’s not a competition to get all the words perfect!
You can find many inspiring examples of scripture telling in the Biblical Storytelling Library.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Epic Convener Catherine Stuart
2024
"Wilderness Wanderings:
An Epic Telling of Deuteronomy"
Tap on the underlined scripture reference to have it open in another tab
to Bible Gateway
STORY | TEXT | TELLER | LENGTH |
|---|---|---|---|
Introduction to the Book | Deut. 1:1-5 | Catherine Stuart | 5 verses |
Leaving Mt Horeb; Organizing Themselves | Deut. 1:6-19 | Pradeep Kumar | 13 verses |
Israel’s Refusal to Enter the Land | Deut. 1:19-47 | 28 verses | |
Some of the "Adventures in the Wilderness" | Deut. 2:26-3:22 | 36 verses | |
Moses Views Canaan From Pisgah | Deut. 3:23-29 | 7 verses | |
Moses Commands Obedience | Deut. 4:1-24 | John Epp | 24 verses |
Warning about Breaking the Covenant | Deut. 4:25-40 | Linnea Good | 16 verses |
The Ten Commandments | Deut. 5:1-18 | 22 verses | |
The Great Commandment | Deut. 6:1-25 | 25 verses | |
A Warning Not to Forget God in Prosperity | Deut. 8:1-10 | Susan Philip | 10 verses |
Don’t Forget what God Did in the Wilderness! | Deut. 8:11-20 | Heather Seargeant | 10 verses |
Retelling the Golden Calf | Deut. 9:6-24 | Jan Bihl | 19 verses |
Moses Intercedes; The Second Pair of Tablets | Deut. 9:25-10:11 | 16 verses | |
The Essence of the Law | Deut. 10:12-11:2 | 13 verses | |
The Passover Reviewed | Deut. 16:1-8 | Leela Sudhakar | 8 verses |
Festival of Weeks; Festival of Booths | Deut. 16:9-17 | Gerhard Bihl | 9 verses |
First Fruits and Tithes | Deut. 26:1-15 | Pegi Rideout | 15 verses |
God’s Fidelity Assured | Deut. 30:1-20 | Kate Jones | 20 verses |
Moses and Joshua Receive God’s Charge | Deut. 31:14-23 | 10 verses | |
Moses Dies and is Buried in the Land of Moab | Deut. 34:1-9 | Stephanie McClellan | 9 verses |
Postscript | Deut. 34:10-12 | Catherine Stuart | 3 verses |
Upload Your Recorded Epic Video to Us
(See the Guidelines above for further instructions, if you need them)
Tellers who have signed up here to learn a small portion of scripture by heart come together to tell their part in sequence, tag-team style.
This year we will team-tell portions of the book of Deuteronomy - and record our tellings from our own locales.
You won’t want to miss this!