Most people use the bible as a prop, without knowing much about the text itself
+ READ ARTICLE“We have, as a culture, invested the words of this book with amazing authority,” says Joel Baden, professor of the Hebrew Bible at Yale University, “even when most people don’t know what the words are or what they might mean.” How do they manipulate the text to their own ends? He explains in this talk at the 2014 Nantucket Project.