The Bible

Not Just the Tudors

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

How did the Bible transform from a guarded manuscript read in secret to a book accessible to millions?

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Professor Bruce Gordon to uncover the revolutionary impact of Gutenberg's printing press and Erasmus's bold Greek New Testament, setting the stage for Martin Luther's game-changing German translation of the world's best-selling book.

Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice Smith, audio editor is Nick Thomson and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb.
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0:15.2	including my own, on Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, Brilliant Rivals.
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0:27.6	Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome to not just the Tudors from History Hit,
0:33.3	the podcast in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs,
0:37.7	from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise.
0:43.1	Relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.
0:47.6	Not in other words just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.
1:07.2	The Bible may be the best-selling text in history and the most influential book in the world,
1:08.6	but it's not static.
1:14.2	And in the 16th and 17th centuries, its role, its wording and its interpretations changed and varied dramatically.
1:16.1	This was an age in which whole new denominations came into being on the basis of the
1:20.5	contested definition of a single phrase.
1:22.9	When the Bible came to be understood as a book with a history and now was not only sacred,
1:28.4	but commodified,
1:34.7	a period in which the very power of the word was redefined. To talk about the changing nature of this seemingly unchanging book, I'm joined by Bruce Gordon, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical
1:40.8	History at Yale Divinity School. He was formerly professor of modern history at the University of St Andrews
1:45.9	and has honorary degrees from the universities of Zurich and King's College, Canada.
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