Digital texts and the New Testament
I thought I needed a dictionary handy to understand this article but not! I am becoming computer word savvy even though I still have trouble finding "my bstheo711 documents" folder.
I think it deliberately tries to hide from me when blogging is on the agenda.
You know this guy Parker I can relate to him I know how he feels when he says,
What am I really looking at when I gaze at the screen,
I certainly have no idea."
Certainly if is pretending to look something like a page of text,
but it equally certainly is not a page of text, it is an image of some kind on a screen,
Parker is aware of the changes in publishing, even though it is at the experimental stage. The digital texts still mirror printed "books but, with continued creativity these codices will fade.
And he says, too many computer scholars are copyist.
So it is illuminating to realise under the guise of reconstructing original texts we are really reconstructing new ones.
What I noticed in my own preaparation for creating a hypertext for wisdom literature, I was thinking how much clearer the understanding of wisdom (Biblical) would have been for me in digital form.
For example in many articles written about wisdom
Wisdom is a personified figure, mythical, hypostatsis multifacted, elusive, immanent, creative order, substantial, corporeal, tangible figure.
What does any of this mean for the new reader.
But with "text" to 'hyypertext" well watch the space when I complete or "chissel" away at my hypertext. When the reader tackles the genre of the text (using a mapping system), with an easy click s/he will know that "she - wisdom" is not a mythical figure but a literary device.
We'll see.
Yes watch the space!
Te atapo
I think it deliberately tries to hide from me when blogging is on the agenda.
You know this guy Parker I can relate to him I know how he feels when he says,
What am I really looking at when I gaze at the screen,
I certainly have no idea."
Certainly if is pretending to look something like a page of text,
but it equally certainly is not a page of text, it is an image of some kind on a screen,
Parker is aware of the changes in publishing, even though it is at the experimental stage. The digital texts still mirror printed "books but, with continued creativity these codices will fade.
And he says, too many computer scholars are copyist.
So it is illuminating to realise under the guise of reconstructing original texts we are really reconstructing new ones.
What I noticed in my own preaparation for creating a hypertext for wisdom literature, I was thinking how much clearer the understanding of wisdom (Biblical) would have been for me in digital form.
For example in many articles written about wisdom
Wisdom is a personified figure, mythical, hypostatsis multifacted, elusive, immanent, creative order, substantial, corporeal, tangible figure.
What does any of this mean for the new reader.
But with "text" to 'hyypertext" well watch the space when I complete or "chissel" away at my hypertext. When the reader tackles the genre of the text (using a mapping system), with an easy click s/he will know that "she - wisdom" is not a mythical figure but a literary device.
We'll see.
Yes watch the space!
Te atapo
1 Comments:
Te Atapo
Do you think digital text allows for inwardness and the contemplative side that you get from slowly reading a book text.
I don't.
Surely the personification is actually engaging As a literary device. Somehow inviting you to get to know her and being able to make her your own however limited that may be.
Must admit I quite like the visual idea of standing at the market gate
and exhorting the people - reminds me of my teenage years standing in Queen St handing out religious tracts and singing salvation hymns!
Maybe thats not quite what Sophia had in mind!
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