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Liquid Scripture : The Bible in a Digital World by Jeffrey S. Siker is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Electronic Bible Is Here To Stay Packaged In Software On Personal Computers, Available As Apps On Tablets And Cell Phones. Increasingly, Students Look At Glowing Screens To Consult The Bible In Class, And Congregants Do The Same In Bible Study And Worship. Jeffrey S. Siker Asks, What Difference Does It Make To Our Experience Of Scripture If We No Longer Hold A Book In Our Hands, If We Again Scroll Through Scripture? How Does The Flow Of Electronic Scripture Change Our Perception Of The Bible's Authority And Significance? Siker Discusses The Difference Made When Early Christians Adopted The Codex Rather Than The Scroll And Gutenberg Began The Mass Production Of Printed Bibles. He Also Reviews The Latest Research On How The Reading Brain Processes Digital Texts And How Churches Use Digital Bibles, Including American Bible Society Research And His Own Surveys Of Church Leaders. Siker Asks, Does The Proliferation Of Electronic Translations Reduce The Perceived Seriousness Of Scripture? Does It Promote An Individualistic Response To The Bible? How Does The Change From A Physical Bible Affect Liturgical Practice? His Synthesis Of The Advantages And Risks Of The Digitized Bible Merit

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Author

Jeffrey S. Siker

Publisher

Fortress Press (NBN)

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781506407869

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Bible