Electronic Form of the Bible

The Scriptures are changing.  I am not talking about the content or the canon.  I mean the form of the Scriptures are changing.  People may be listening to the Bible as a podcast or audio book rather crack the cover of a bound set of pages as a book.  There has been changes to the form and availability of Scripture.  The Old Testament in the ancient world was a scrolls.  The Scroll limited the length of the work.  Eventually the Scripture was recorded as a book.  The whole of the Bible could be gathered in one collection as one book.  However these were copied by hand.  The printing press changed the Bible from a hand copied book to a mass produced book.  No longer was the Bible the property of a church or a rich person, a less wealthy person could own a Bible.  People could read the Bible in their home.  They could check what their pastor was saying in the sermon.  Today many people are feasting on the Bible in through various electronic forms.  Not only do people listen to an audio form of the Bible, Bible software means that people can access instantaneously word search, original language tools, and compare translations.  Using a cross reference system is no longer a long tedious journey of flipping back and forth in the Bible.  With Bible software hovering over a reference often shows the verse and clicking on the text takes the reader to the passage. 

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Milton Stanley said…
I'm not blogging any more but stopped by to see what you were up to. Glad to see you're posting again.
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