In her book Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time, Kristin Swenson explains what the Bible is, where it comes from, and how it’s relevant today. Also featured: Edward Neukrug (Old Dominion University) has collected oral histories of colleagues and former patients of some of the great psychologists of our time, including B.F. Skinner and Carl Rogers.

Later in the show: Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald had a celebrity marriage during the Jazz Age of the 1920s. From 1930 until her death in 1948, Zelda was in and out of mental hospitals. Karen Tatum (Norfolk State University) is exploring the possibility of a link between the medication Zelda took for eczema and her debilitating mental illness. Also featured: Hermine Pinson (College of William and Mary) is a poet and singer who found herself fighting for her life after she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Her book Promises to Keep: A Memoir of Healing explores writing as therapy after recovering from serious illness.