Inspired By … The Bible Experience Audio Bible - Today's New International Version, TNIV: Old Testament Audiobook

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Zondervan, part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, is a world leading Bible publisher and provider of Christian communications. For more than eighty years, Zondervan has delivered transformational Christian experiences through its bestselling Bibles, books, curriculum, academic resources, and digital products. The company’s products are sold in multiple formats, worldwide in more than sixty countries, and translated into nearly two hundred languages.

About the Narrators

Blair Underwood is an author and award-winning actor, director, and producer. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Cicely Tyson (1924–2021) was an actress, lecturer, activist, and one of the most respected talents in American theater and film history. From her starring role on Broadway in The Blacks (1961), to the Emmy-nominated 1999 HBO film A Lesson before Dying, her work garnered critical and commercial applause for more than sixty years. Her two Emmys for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman made her the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for Best Actress. In 2013, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Miss Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful. A capstone achievement came in 2018, when she became the first Black woman to receive an honorary Oscar. The Board of Governors voted unanimously to honor her with the award, which came forty-five years after her Academy Award nominated performance in Sounder.

Kim Fields had her first job at age seven on the Mrs. Butterworth syrup commercial. Behind the camera, she directed episodes of Kenan & Kel, Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns and House of Payne, and BET’s Let’s Stay Together. Between gigs her life has included theater, spoken word, music, and speaking engagements. She is a dedicated wife and proud mom of two boys.

Ruby Dee (1922–2014) was a multi-award-winning actress, playwright, screenwriter, and activist. During her seven-decade career, she won a Grammy, Emmy, Obie, and Drama Desk award and was nominated for an Academy Award. She was also the recipient of a National Medal of Arts, a Kennedy Center Honor, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. She is perhaps best known for originating the role of Ruth Younger in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun, but she also had roles in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever. She was also known for her civic work with husband Ossie Davis. She also wrote plays, fiction, and a column in New York’s Amsterdam News. Born in Cleveland, she worked initially with the American Negro Theater in Harlem, where she grew up.

Bishop T. D. Jakes is one of the world’s most widely recognized pastors and a New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books. Named by Time magazine as “America’s Best Preacher,” his message of healing and restoration is unparalleled, transcending cultural and denominational barriers. Jakes is the founder and senior pastor of The Potter’s House, which has a congregation of over thirty thousand. His weekly television outreach, The Potter’s House, and his daily television program, The Potter’s Touch, have become favorites throughout America, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Caribbean. Jakes lives in Dallas with his wife, Serita.

Vanessa Williams is an American singer, actress, producer and former fashion model. She has appeared in both television and film, and currently stars in the supernatural drama series 666 Park Avenue. Williams released her personal memoir in 2012 in collaboration with her mother, Helen Williams.  

Keke Palmer is an Emmy Award–winning actress, singer, songwriter, host, producer, author, and passionate voice of the millennial generation. She rose to prominence at age twelve through her breakout role in Akeelah and the Bee, starring opposite Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne, and has gone on to star in more than twenty-five films and thirty television shows, including Nope and hosted NBC’s reboot of Password with Jimmy Fallon. She is the CEO of KeyTV—a digital network dedicated to spotlighting a new generation of diverse creators and democratizing the entertainment industry—and the record label Big Bosses Entertainment.

Tamera Mowry-Housley is an actress and television personality known for her roles in Sister, Sister, Twitches, and Tia & Tamera and as a co-host on The Real and a host of Prime Video’s Dr. Seuss Baking Show. 

Tia Mowry-Hardrict and Tamera Mowry-Housley have been in the public eye for over twenty years, beginning with their hit ABC/WB show Sister, Sister. They have starred in Disney Channel’s original movies Twitches and Twitches Too, as well as the Style Network’s #1 reality series, Tia & Tamera. Tia was the lead of The CW/BET’s show The Game and can be seen starring in and producing the Nickelodeon series Instant Mom and on Cooking Channel’s show Tia Mowry at Home. Tamera is a host and producer of the hit daytime talk show The Real, which airs on Fox, and starred in the Lifetime series Strong Medicine.