Episode 6: Permission Granted: Take the Bible Into Your Own Hands- Jennifer Grace Bird

Dr. Jennifer Grace Bird considers the possibilities for reading the Bible in light of modern ethics and historical insights. Her book, Permission Granted: Take the Bible Into Your Own Hands (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2015) inquires what the text says about women, sex, sin and more.

Interview by Richard Newton and the Spring 2016 Introduction to New Testament Class 

Production assistance by Maya Aphornsuvan

Bibliography

Jennifer Grace Bird @Huffington Post.

Jennifer Grace Bird, Permission Granted: Take the Bible Into Your Own Hands (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2015).

Marcus J. Borg, Reading the Bible Again for the Very First Time (HarperOne, 2002).

John J. Collins, A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Second Edition (Fortress Press, 2014).

Bart D. Ehrman, A Brief Introduction to the New Testament, Third Edition (Oxford University Press, 2012). 

Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, Jacqueline E. Lapsley, eds. Women’s Bible Commentary, Third Edition: Revised and Updated (Westminster John Knox Press, 2012).

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, ed. Feminist Biblical Studies in the Twentieth Century: Scholarship and Movement (SBL Press, 2014).