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2.57: How Do We Read the Bible?

In episode 3 of season 2, Prof. Kathryn Schifferdecker and Katie Langston explore the question, How do we read the Bible? This is the third in a four-part series called Bible Basics.

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In this episode, Prof. Kathryn Schifferdecker and Katie Langston explore the question, How do we read the Bible? Third in a four-part series called Bible Basics.

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Biblical overviews

Publishers mentioned

Translations of the Bible

  • NRSV (New Revised Standard Version)
  • NIV (New International Version)
  • NET (New English Translation)
  • The Tanakh (The Jewish Bible from the Jewish Publication Society)
  • The Message (paraphrase by Eugene Peterson)

Devotional resources

  • God Pause from Luther Seminary
  • Common Prayer website and app with Shaine Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and Enuma Okoro

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Today's Episode Hosted By

Kathryn Schifferdecker

Kathryn Schifferdecker

Katie Langston

Katie Langston

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Kathryn M. Schifferdecker

Kathryn M Schifferdecker came to Luther Seminary as an assistant professor of Old Testament in 2006. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Schifferdecker was associate pastor for five years at Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale, Wisc., before coming to Luther. Schifferdecker is a frequent contributor to workingpreacher.org, Word & World and the author of Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job (Harvard University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a commentary on the book of Esther.

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Katie Langston

Katie Langston is a doubter by nature and a believer by grace. She grew up Mormon in a small Utah town and still isn't sure she fits in anywhere sophisticated enough to have a Target. She's the author of Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace, an acclaimed spiritual memoir about her conversion to orthodox Christianity. Katie works as the director of digital strategy for Luther Seminary's innovation team, where she oversees digital projects aimed at cultivating vibrant Christian spirituality in a post-modern, post-Christian cultural context.

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