In twenty-five years of teaching literature, I’ve noticed that many avid readers rarely read the Bible and many committed Bible-readers rarely read modern literature. This podcast brings the Bible and Modern Literature together, discussing literary works that use Bible references to explore ideas that matter to modern readers. Each episode of this podcast explains how a relatively recent literary work uses the Bible to make sense of modern experience. By exploring how biblical sources power the thinking of modern authors, readers can multiply their insights about some well-known literary works. By spending time with modern literature, Bible-enthusiasts can discover how their favorite book shapes culture beyond specifically religious circles. The Bible and Modern Literature podcast focuses on nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century writers like Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Jacobs, Mary Shelley, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Sherman Alexie, Avraham Yehoshua, and others. By visiting Genesis, Exodus, the Book of Joshua, the Book of Isaiah, the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, and the Book of Revelation, readers enhance their understanding of major modern writers.

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