Professor Jeanne Petrolle discusses literature that uses Bible references to explore ideas that matter to twenty-first century readers.The Bible and Modern Literature podcast focuses on nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century writers like Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Jacobs, Mary Shelley, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Sherman Alexie, Avraham Yehoshua, and others. By visiting Genesis, Exodus, the Book of Joshua, the Book of Isaiah, the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, and the Book of Revelation, readers enhance their understanding of major modern writers.