Podcast: Dru Johnson, Jonathan Silver, and Robert Nicholson on the New Center for Hebraic Thought

This Week’s Guests: Dru Johnson, Jonathan Silver, and Robert Nicholson

The English Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton famously described the United States as “a nation with the soul of a church.” One-hundred years or so later, Americans remain a deeply religious people; it is impossible to understand the American story without reference to Scripture in general, and the Hebrew Bible in particular.

But these days something in American culture is missing: one can undertake the academic study of the Bible—uncovering the text’s strands of composition, its dating, its relation to ancient Near Eastern culture—but less easily available in our institutions of higher learning is the opportunity to mine the Hebrew Bible for its moral and political wisdom.