Bible As Interface Michael Paul Hemenway by Michael Paul Hemenway instant download after payment.

and mobile devices transform our reading and writing technologies. With the entangled histories of bible

and book, our emerging technological age and its transformation of the materiality of bible forces us to

engage bible as something irreducible to a book. The connections between the major technological

transition from roll to codex in antiquity and the contemporary move toward the internet and mobile

technologies as reading platforms encourage us to consider bible as an interface that affords high

surface area, collaboration, and anarchy. Building on a growing attention to materiality in the study of

religion and iconic books like the bible, I suggest bible as interface here to signal that bible is more than a

container of content. Rather, bible as interface is a relationship between a material platform and a user

that cannot be reduced to simple consumption of content. Rooted in the material religion approaches of

Brent Plate and James Watts and animated by the interface theory of Johanna Drucker extended through

a Levinasian optics of proximity, I will explore the many contact points of high surface area, the

interruptive processes of collaboration, and the irreducibility to a single original text or single proper use

in anarchy through a close look at the materiality of bible from ancient roll to digital API.