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Episode 57: What is the Bible? And Why Does it Matter? with Professor Bruce Gordon

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Bruce Gordon


Duration

74.21


Uploaded to YouTube

24 April 2025

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17 December 2025


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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.)