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"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
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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.
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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- American Printing History Association
- Antique Bible pages for sale
- ARTFL searchable multilingual Bible database
- Better Bibles Blog
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- Bibliographical Society at UVA
- Book and Media Studies Program at Toronto
- Book History and Print Culture at Toronto
- Bookshelf Porn
- Center for the Study of Information and Religion
- Center for the Study of NT Manuscripts
- Codex Sinaiticus project
- Edinburgh Centre for the History of the Book
- Editorial Institute at Boston University
- Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception
- Episcopalian statement of interpretive principles
- Heresy and Error Exhibit from SMU
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
- Iconic Books Project
- IDEA - Universite de Lorraine
- Institute for Signifying Scriptures
- International Association for Media and History
- Iowa Center for the Book
- Journal of Scriptural Reasoning
- List of English Bible Versions
- Material Religion Journal
- Material Scripture bibliography (suggestions welcome)
- Media Archaeology
- Nida Institute for Bible Scholarship
- Over the Transom
- Rare Books School at UVA
- Research on Authorship as Performance at the University of Ghent
- SCRIPT - Society for Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
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2 comments:
This is a great piece. too bad all books aren't made this way!
Thanks for your comment, Brent - I agree!
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