From one medium to another : communicating the Bible through multimedia
Eighteen experts from a wide variety of academic and professional fields engage key questions in a series of thought-provoking essays that define the emerging field of new media Bible translating, and how the biblical message will be communicated in the culture and media of the 21st century.
Conference papers and proceedings
381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781556129681, 9780826700346, 1556129688, 0826700349
37862452
pt. 1. Theoretical approaches: assessing the challenge. Recent developments in New Testament hermeneutics / Moisés Silva
Problems and challenges of translation in an age of new media and competing models / José Lambert
Audiovisual translation and new media / Patrick Cattrysse
Understanding audience understanding / Paul A. Soukup
The seriousness of play: Gadamer's hermeneutics as a resource for Christian mission / Fred Lawrence
pt. 2. Case studies: accepting the challenge. Tuning in: a historical look at Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and electronic media / Edith L. Blumhofer
Telling the story in dance / Elizabeth Keen
Installation art: sacred places in secular spaces / Jennifer A. González
Film language and communication: from Cecil B. De Mille to Martin Scorcese / Jayne Loader
Out of the garden and into the mall: Eve's journey from Eden to MTV / Alice Bach. Musical Mimesis for modern media / J. Ritter Werner
Multimedia images: Plato's cave revisited / Gregor Goethals
Programming issues in multimedia design / Reg Pettus
pt. 3. Future studies: accepting the new challenges. From scriptural to virtual: Bible translation, hypercommunication, and virtual reality / Gregory M. Shreve
Stories as dynamic adaptive environments / Glorianna Davenport
Media ecology and the new literacy: notes on an electronic hermeneutic / Phil Mullins
Papers presented at a symposium held Sept. 7-9, 1995 at Bible House, New York City