Biblical Text and its medium
It seems to me that this is an interesting topic because everyone in the class (BSTHEO 711) has written something about it. I also found that all my class mates have a very similar perspective on biblical text and the web.
Young in her blog ‘Authority of texts: Talks with interpreters’ stated that ‘web reading of a Biblical text does not dissolve its authority automatically, as long as the web reading leaves room for nurturing playfulness. It’s only when that playfulness is removed that the authority of the text becomes jeopardized.’
Te Atapo in her blog ‘Biblical text – printed and digital’ had this to say, ‘Now in the “electronic culture” the digitizing of text makes it possible for nearly anyone to prepare, copy, or modify texts, skills that were formerly the property of few. Anyone with a computer can physically rewrite the digital text in any way. Take a passage from the digital bible -cut and paste into word and bingo! You can alter the text. So the stability of the texts is threatened by deleting, pasting, inserting and inserting. As the World Wide Web increasingly replaces traditional hard copy sources for texts such as the Bible the original text begins to lose all value.’
And Denisek had this to say, ‘So what of the Bible? What does it mean and say about the canon of a collection of sacred texts that can be printed off, used for scrap paper or printed off bit by bit. Just the good comfy bits you like without all that gory mean stuff - never in a wholeness or body but just Xerox sheets.’
A lot of the concerns being raised is about the medium in which the ability of the technology can provide. The question being raised from this is whether the possibilities of mediums provided by technology for the biblical text carries the sacredness of the biblical text or the does the words in the biblical text, its history, carries the sacredness of the biblical text? Can we see the possibilities of mediums provided by technology as a way to protect being written on your sacred book?
open for discussion ... come on class and anyone whose interested!!!
Young in her blog ‘Authority of texts: Talks with interpreters’ stated that ‘web reading of a Biblical text does not dissolve its authority automatically, as long as the web reading leaves room for nurturing playfulness. It’s only when that playfulness is removed that the authority of the text becomes jeopardized.’
Te Atapo in her blog ‘Biblical text – printed and digital’ had this to say, ‘Now in the “electronic culture” the digitizing of text makes it possible for nearly anyone to prepare, copy, or modify texts, skills that were formerly the property of few. Anyone with a computer can physically rewrite the digital text in any way. Take a passage from the digital bible -cut and paste into word and bingo! You can alter the text. So the stability of the texts is threatened by deleting, pasting, inserting and inserting. As the World Wide Web increasingly replaces traditional hard copy sources for texts such as the Bible the original text begins to lose all value.’
And Denisek had this to say, ‘So what of the Bible? What does it mean and say about the canon of a collection of sacred texts that can be printed off, used for scrap paper or printed off bit by bit. Just the good comfy bits you like without all that gory mean stuff - never in a wholeness or body but just Xerox sheets.’
A lot of the concerns being raised is about the medium in which the ability of the technology can provide. The question being raised from this is whether the possibilities of mediums provided by technology for the biblical text carries the sacredness of the biblical text or the does the words in the biblical text, its history, carries the sacredness of the biblical text? Can we see the possibilities of mediums provided by technology as a way to protect being written on your sacred book?
open for discussion ... come on class and anyone whose interested!!!
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