The Bible in Church and Academy
Posted in Books, Ignorance, Technology on Feb 23rd, 2010
I wrote some articles for the first couple of volumes of the NIDB, and subscribed to the series with my author’s discount. It was still expensive, but one perk was that I received the final CD-ROM version of the set. My disc arrived today.
Imagine my frustration when I saw the “Powered by Nextpage” and “Windows [...]
Posted in Books on Jan 13th, 2010
Let’s see, where was I?
Oh yes, Brooke called my attention to Charles’ challenge for us to read The Context of Scripture through in a year. He has provided a helpful schedule for doing so. An excellent idea, and a good chance to use my Accordance module.
This is the first week of class, so optimism is [...]
In my Freshman Seminar this semester, I tried something a bit unusual. Instead of assigning the printed version of the first class text (Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book), I assigned the audiobook version. I had three reasons for doing this.
First, I have designed the course to be a romp through different genres and media forms. [...]
I know what I said in my last post: “the time will come when the vast majority of the world’s knowledge will be available in portable, archivable, and justly-distributed electronic form.” I believe that, and I want to help make it happen.
This, however, is just silly. A Massachusetts prep school has gotten rid of 20,000 [...]
Posted in Books, Publishing on Sep 3rd, 2009
Dan Visel at the if:book blog linked to a great article at Pitchfork on the social history of the MP3. Dan draws this analogy to the printed material industry:
I don’t know that there’s a direct analogue to the way the publishing industry is attempting to transform itself in the face of the digital, but Harvey [...]
Posted in Books on Jun 20th, 2009
Continuum finally sent me a box of author’s copies of my book, Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus. Despite all of my rhetoric about electronic publishing, it’s nice to see something tangible.
Also, I’m taking Chris Brady’s advice: “Once something has gone to press, never read it again.”
Here is a book that I am excited to read, a novel about Paul by Johnny Cash called Man in White. Ben Meyers has the details in this post, and includes one of the best quotes I’ve heard in a while:
“Tons of material has been written …, but I discovered that the Bible can shed [...]
[Meta note: I had occasion to type the word "Wordpress" in an email this evening, and the spell checker wanted to change it to "Wordless." Obviously my spell checker subscribes to my blog. The good news is that my new computer should be here this week and I can quit slumming in the computer lab [...]
Posted in Books, Shameless self-promotion on Apr 21st, 2009
I don’t have as many funds to buy books as I used to (we have two little guys), but I still subscribe to every bookseller’s email newsletter I can find. I especially love Dove books because of their great sales on back titles and the occasional estate sale.
I was pleased to see that my book [...]
Posted in Books, Culture, Open Access Scholarship on Apr 20th, 2009
When it comes to the promise of e-books and electronic publishing, Steven Johnson ‘gets it.’ In an insightful article today for the Wall Street Journal, Johnson ponders “how the e-book will change the way we read.” Journalists and scholars often talk about e-books as if the issue were simply one of distribution and [...]
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