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Technology & Media
 
Baron, Dennis.  A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
 
Carr, Nicholas.  "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"  Atlantic 302:1 (2008) 56-63.
 
 
 


Religion, Technology & Media
 
Beckerlegge, Gwilym.  From Sacred Text to Internet, Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change.  Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2001.
 
Bunt, G. R.  iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam.  Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
 
Campbell, Heidi A.  Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds.  New York: Routledge, 2013.
 
--------.  When Religion Meets New Media, Media, Religion and Culture.  New York: Routledge, 2010.
 
Cheong, Pauline Hope, Peter Fischer-Nielsen, Stefan Gelfgren and Charles Ess, eds.  Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and Futures, Digital Formations.  New York: Peter Lang, 2012.
 
Davidson, Theresa and Lee K. Farquhar.  "Correlates of Social Anxiety, Religion, and Facebook."  Journal of Media and Religion 13:4 (2014) 208-225.
 
Dawson, Lorne L. and Douglas E. Cowan, eds.  Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet.  New York: Routledge, 2004.
 
Deacy, C. and E. Arweck, eds.  Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age.London: Ashgate, 2009.
 
Decker, Rodney J.  "Communicating the Text in the Postmodern Ethos of Cyberspace: Cautions Regarding the Technology and the Text."  Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 5 (2000) 45-70.
 
Fortner, Robert S.  "Media."  In Blackwell Companion to Religion in America (ed. Philip Goff; Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2010) 206-214.
 
Frost, Jonathon K. and Norman E. Youngblood.  "Online Religion and Religion Online: Reform Judaism and Web-Based Communication."  Journal of Media and Religion 13:2 (2014) 49-66.
 
Hadden, Jeffrey K. and Douglas E. Cowan, eds.  Religion on the Internet, Religion and the Social Order 8.  Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2000.
 
Helland, Christopher.  "Surfing for Salvation."  Religion 32 (2002) 293-302.
 
Hoewe, Jennifer, Brian J. Bowe and Naheda Makhadmen.  "Broadcasting Sharia: American TV News' Illustration of Social Identity and the Emergence of a Threat."  Journal of Media and Religion 13:2 (2014) 67-81.
 
Holcomb, Justin S.  Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction. New York: NYU Press, 2006.
 
Howard, Robert Glenn.  Digital Jesus: The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet, The New and Alternative Religions Series.  New York: NYU Press, 2011.
 
--------.  Network Apocalypse: Visions of the End in an Age of Internet Media. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2011.
 
Karaflogka, Anastasia.  "Religious Discourse and Cyberspace."  Religion 32 (2002) 279-91.
 
Kirby, Danielle.  Fantasy and Belief: Alternative Religions, Popular Narratives and Digital Cultures.  New York: Routledge, 2014.
 
Knowles, Steven.  "Rapture Ready and the World Wide Web: Religious Authority on the Internet."  Journal of Media and Religion 12:3 (2013) 128-43.
 
Maxwell, Patrick.  "Virtual Religion in Context."  Religion 32 (2002) 343-54.
 
Pearl, Sharrona.  "Exceptions to the Rule: Chabad-Lubavitch and the Digital Sphere."  Journal of Media and Religion 13:3 (2014) 123-137.
 
Rosen, Jonathan.  The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
 
Sheehan, Jonathan.  "The Poetics and Politics of Theodicy."  Prooftexts 27:2 (2007) 211-32.
 
Soukup, Paul A.  "Scholarship and the State of the Religious Communication Association."  Journal of Communication and Religion 33:2 (2010) 180-89.
 
Stanford, Peter.  How to Read a Graveyard: Journeys in the Company of the Dead.New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
 
Steinitz, Oren Z.  "Responsa 2.0: Are Q&A Websites Creating a New Type of Halachic Discourse?"  Modern Judaism 31:1 (2011) 85-102.
 
Stolow, Jeremy, ed.  Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between.  New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.
 
 


Craft & the Science of Manuscript Study
 
Griffin, Carl W.  "Digital Imaging: Looking Toward the Future of Manuscript Research."  Currents in Biblical Research 5:1 (2006) 58-72. Doi: 10.1177/1476993X06068699.
 
Knox, Keith Thomas, Roger L. Eason and Robert H. Johnston.  "Digital Miracles: Revealing Invisible Scripts."  In The Hebrew Bible and Qumran (ed. James H. Charlesworth; North Richland Hills, Texas: BIBAL, 2000) 43-61.
 
Parker, D. C.  "Through a Screen Darkly: Digital Texts and the New Testament."  Journal for the Study of the New Testament 25:4 (2003) 395-411.
 
 


Bible & Technology
 
Aichele, George and Tina Pippin, eds.  Violence, Utopia and the Kingdom of God: Fantasy and Ideology in the Bible.  New York: Routledge, 1998.
 
Alexenberg, Mel.  "An Interactive Dialogue: Talmud and the Net."  Parabola 29:2 (2004) 32-6.
 
Crane, Jonathan Kadane and Joseph Born Kadane.  "Seeing Things: The Internet, the Talmud and Anais Nin."  Review of Rabbinic Judaism 11:2 (2008) 342-5.
 
Fortner, Robert S.  "Digital Media as Cultural Metaphor."  In New Paradigms for Bible Study: The Bible in the Third Millennium (ed. Robert M. Fowler, Edith L. Blumhofer and Fernando F. Segovia; London: T & T Clark, 2004) 21-47.
 
Greifenhagen, F. V.  "Scripture Wars: Contemporary Polemical Discourses of Bible versus Quran on the Internet."  Comparative Islamic Studies 6:1-2 (2010) 23-65.
 
Hess, M.  "The Bible and Popular Culture: Engaging Sacred Text in a World of Others."  In New Paradigms for Bible Study: The Bible in the Third Millennium (ed. Robert M. Fowler, Edith L. Blumhofer and Fernando F. Segovia; London: T & T Clark, 2004) 207-224.
 
Kauffman, Richard A.  "Holy Digital: The Bible on iPad."  Christian Century 130:9 (1 May 2013) 11.
 
Kussell, Peter Ben.  "Book Review: The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds."  Conservative Judaism 54:4 (2002) 87-8.
 
Kuykendall, Michael.  "Going a Step Beyond: Websites with More than Just Bibles."  Theological Librarianship 3:2 (2010).
 
Mitchell, Matthew W.  "Biblical Studies on the Internet."  Religious Studies Review 32:4 (2006) 216-18.
 
Scholz, Susanne.  "Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:1-29) on the Internet: The Implications of the Internet for the Study of the Bible."  Journal of Religion & Society 1 (1999) 1-15.
 
Scott, David W.  "Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark? Multi-Media Narratives and Natural Science Museum Discourse at the Creation Museum in Kentucky."  Journal of Media and Religion 13:4 (2014) 226-243.
 
Shier-Jones, Angela.  "From Transmission to TXT: The Bible in a Digital Age."   Epworth Review 37:3 (2010) 32-49.
 
Siker, Jeffrey S.  Liquid Scripture: The Bible in a Digital World.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017.
 
Simkins, Ronald A.  "Teaching the Bible through the Internet: In the Classroom and at a Distance."  Journal of Religion & Society 2 (2000) 1-11.
 
Thieme, R.  "Entering Sacred Digital Space: Seeking to Distinguish the Dreamer and the Dream."  In New Paradigms for Bible Study: The Bible in the Third Millennium (ed. Robert M. Fowler, Edith L. Blumhofer and Fernando F. Segovia; London: T & T Clark, 2004) 49-70.
 
Yee, Vivian.  "At Educational Event, a Modern Legal Interpretation of a Biblical Story."  The New York Times (16 November 2014). Online, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/nyregion/at-educational-event-a-modern-legal-interpretation-of-a-biblical-story.html?_r=0, accessed 2 December 2014.
 
Zylstra, Sarah Eekhoff.  "Fifty Shades of the Good Book: Erotica Fans Aren't the Only Beneficiaries of Private Digital Consumption."  Christianity Today 57:1 (1 January 2013) 15.
 


Orality & Oral Performance
 
Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw.  "Tradition in the Mouth of the Hero: Jesus as an Interpreter of Scripture."  In Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (ed. Richard A. Horsley, Jonathan A. Draper and John Miles Foley; dedicated to Werner Kelber; Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006) 97-103, 217-22.
 
Ferris, Sharmila Pixy and Maureen Montgomery.  "The New Orality: Oral Characteristics of Computer-mediated Communication."  New Jersey Journal of Communication 4:1 (1996) 55-60.
 
Foley, John Miles.  "Memory in Oral Tradition."  In Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (ed. Richard A. Horsley, Jonathan A. Draper and John Miles Foley; dedicated to Werner Kelber; Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006) 83-96, 215-17.
 
Fortner, Robert S.  Communication, Media, and Identity.  Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
 
Goldhaber, M. H.  "The Mentality of Homo Interneticus: Some Ongian Postulates."   First Monday 9:6 (2004) 1.
 
Hearon, Holly E.  "The Implications of Orality for Studies of the Biblical Text."  In Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (ed. Richard A. Horsley, Jonathan A. Draper and John Miles Foley; dedicated to Werner Kelber; Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006) 3-20, 196-201.
 
Horsley, Richard A.  "Introduction."  In Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (ed. Richard A. Horsley, Jonathan A. Draper and John Miles Foley; dedicated to Werner Kelber; Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006) vii-xvi, 193-6.
 
--------.  "A Prophet Like Moses and Elijah: Popular Memory and Cultural Patterns in Mark."  In Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (ed. Richard A. Horsley, Jonathan A. Draper and John Miles Foley; dedicated to Werner Kelber; Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006) 166-90, 234-6.
 
Marsh, Charles.  "Aristotelian Ethos and the New Orality: Implications for Media Literacy and Media Ethics."  Journal of Mass Media Ethics 21:4 (2006) 338-52.
 
Robbins, Vernon.  "Interfaces of Orality and Literature in the Gospel of Mark."  In Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (ed. Richard A. Horsley, Jonathan A. Draper and John Miles Foley; dedicated to Werner Kelber; Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006) 125-46, 229-32.
 
Rodríguez, Rafael.  Oral Tradition and the New Testament: A Guide for the Perplexed. New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2014.
 
Schröter, Jens.  "Jesus and the Canon: The Early Jesus Traditions in the Context of the Origins of the New Testament Canon."  In Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (ed. Richard A. Horsley, Jonathan A. Draper and John Miles Foley; dedicated to Werner Kelber; Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006) 104-122, 222-8.
 
Shiner, Whitney.  "Memory Technology and the Composition of Mark."  In Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (ed. Richard A. Horsley, Jonathan A. Draper and John Miles Foley; dedicated to Werner Kelber; Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006) 147-65, 232-4.
 
Soukup, Paul A.  "Contexts of Faith: The Religious Foundation of Walter Ong’s Literacy and Orality."  Journal of Media & Religion 5:3 (2006) 175-88.
 
--------.  "Orality and Literacy 25 Years Later."  Communication Research Trends 26:4 (2007) 3-21.
 
Sterne, Jonathan.  "The Theology of Sound: A Critique of Orality."  Canadian Journal of Communication 36:2 (2011) 207-225.
 


Ritual & Theatre
 
Johnson, Todd Eric.  Performing the Sacred: Theology and Theatre in Dialogue. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2009.
 
 


Art & Illustration
 
Exum, J. Cheryl and Ela Nutu, eds.  Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue.  Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2009.
 
O’Kane, Martin, ed.  Bible, Art, Gallery, The Bible in the Modern World 21.  Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2011.
 
--------.  Painting the Text: The Artist as Biblical Interpreter.  Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2009.
 
Schroer, Silvia, ed.  Images and Gender: Contributions to the Hermeneutics of Reading Ancient Art, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 220.  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006.
 
Vander Stichele, Caroline and Hugh S. Pyper, eds.  Text, Image, and Otherness in Children's Bibles: What Is in the Picture?, Semeia Studies 56.  Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.
 
 


Film
 
For sources on religion and film, particularly films about Jesus, see the bibliography for the professor's course, Jesus: Real to Reel.
 
For resources on apocalyptic themes in contemporary film, see the page on Apocalyptic Films on our course website.
 
Resources on other biblical films can be found on our course Research page. A few other general resources follow.
 
Blyth, Caroline and Alison Jack.  The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama: Murderous Texts, LHB/OTS, Scriptural Traces.  New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
 


Music
 
Adam, A.K.M.  "'What These Cryptic Symbols Mean': quotation, Allusion, and John Darnielle's Biblical Interpretation.   Biblical Interpretation 19:2 (2011) 109-128.
 
Blackwell, J. Mark.  "A Tale of Two Cities: San Francisco and 'Gomorrah' in Biblical Allusion and Unestimated Prophecy."  Biblical Interpretation 19:2 (2011) 129-50.
 
Boer, Roland.  "Hearing Round Corners: Nick Cave and the Philosophy of Music."   Relegere 1:2 (2011).
 
--------.  "Under the Influence? The Bible, Culture and Nick Cave."  Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 12 (2006).
 
Boer, Roland and Ibrahim Abraham.  "Noah's Nakedness: Islam, Race, and the Fantasy of the Christian West."  In Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture (ed. Roberta Sterma Sabbath; Boston: Brill, 2009) 461-73.
 
Cheney, C.  "Representin' God: Masculinity and the Use of the Bible in Rap Music."  In African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures (ed. Vincent L. Wimbush and Rosamond C. Rodman; New York: Continuum, 2000) 804-816.
 
Crossley, James G.  "For everyManc a Religion: Biblical and Religious Language in the Manchester Music Scene, 1976-1994."  Biblical Interpretation 19:2 (2011) 151-80.
 
Galbraith, Deane.  "Drawing Our Fish in the Sand: Secret Biblical Allusions in the Music of U2."  Biblical Interpretation 19:2 (2011) 181-222.
 
Gilmour, Michael J.  "Arcade Fire's Parodic Bible."  Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 21 special edition (2009).
 
--------.  "They Refused Jesus Too: A Biblical Paradigm in the Writing of Bob Dylan."  Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 1 (2002).
 
Goodman, Bill.  "Assured Lament: U2 Sing the Psalms."  Relegere 2:1 (2012.
 
Raphael, Simcha Paull.  "'Miriam Took Her Timbrel Out and All the Women Danced': A Midrashic Motif of Contemporary Jewish Feminism."  Women in Judaism 7:2 (2010).
 
Strawn, Brent A.  "Sanctified and Commercially Successful Curses: On Gangsta Rap and the Canonization of the Imprecatory Psalms."  Theology Today 69:4 (2013) 403-417.
 
Thompson, Joseph Milburn.  "From Judah to Jamaica: The Psalms in Rastafari Reggae."  Religion and the Arts 16:4 (2012) 328-56.
 
Voth, Steven M. and Diego De Lorenzi.  "Orality and Writtenness in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy: Its Effect on Translation as Communication in Latin America."   Bible Translator 56:3 (2005) 114-28.
 
Walsh, Brian J.  "'At Home in the Darkness, but Hungry for Dawn': Global Homelessness and a Passion for Homecoming in teh Music of Bruce Cockburn."   Cultural Encounters 1:2 (2005) 75-88.
 
Walsh, Carey Ellen.  "Shout-outs to the Creator: The Use of Biblical Themes in Rap Lyrics."  Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 25:2 (2013).
 


Interactive Fiction (IF)
 
Eve, Eric.  "All Hope Abandon: Biblical Text and Interactive Fiction."  Digital Humanities Quarterly 1:2 (2007). Online, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/
1/2/000010/000010.html
, accessed 29 January 2015.
 
 


TV & Film
 
Bond, Helen K. and Edward Adams, eds.  The Bible on Television, The Library of New Testament Studies, Scriptural Traces.  New York: T&T Clark, 2020.
 
Yamasaki, Gary.  Insights from Filmmaking for Analyzing Biblical Narrative, Reading the Bible in the 21st Century: Insights.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2016.
 
 
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