Kristin Swenson on the Inherent Strangeness of the Bible | Episode 15 | The Side Comment

Опубликовано: 19 Февраль 2026
на канале: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press)
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In this episode, Kristin Swenson discusses five ways in which the Bible, one of the world's most seminal texts, is strange.

Kristin Swenson is Associate Professor of Religious at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time and Living through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness.

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