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Episode 57: What is the Bible? And Why Does it Matter? with Professor Bruce Gordon
Theologian
Bruce Gordon
Duration
74.21
Uploaded to YouTube
24 April 2025
Added to Database
17 December 2025
YouTube description
What is the Bible?
Who decided which books would be included within it?
How can we make sense of it and its various paradoxes?
How is the Bible seen, and applied, in different parts of the world?
How did the Bible gain its cultural significance while being such a difficult book?
What have we lost in the west from the Bible’s loss of cultural popularity?
Which version of the Bible should you read?
How is the Bible adapting in the digital age?
In this episode, Professor Bruce Gordon of Yale's Divinity School answers these questions and more.
(Episode recorded on 6th November 2024.)
