"He cuts down cedars, takes a holm or an oak, and lays hold of other trees of the forest, which the Lord had planted and the rain made grow..." - Isaiah 44
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
NPR story on The BOOK: New Testament and The Green Bible
Last week National Public Radio aired a story about two recent, high-profile versions of Christian Scripture: The BOOK: New Testament [NLT] and The Green Bible [NRSV].
From well before the advent of movable-type printing techniques, the Holy Bible has been a marketed object. This fact has only become more apparent in recent decades, with the rise of Bibles increasingly tailored to demographics and identity.
This blog explores the physical forms that Scripture takes, as it is presented to readers in various iterations as a printed artifact. Thus the phrase, "Material Scripture," describes a practice of inquiry that seeks to examine the culture of mass-market Bibles in North America by analyzing the Bibles themselves.
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