The Bible in the Digital Age

(04 Dec 08 - RV) Biblical Scholars and Computer experts met today at the Papal Basilica of Saint Paul’s Outside the Walls here in Rome for a conference entitled “Reading the Bible Today in our Digital World.”
The Conference is a follow-up to the recently concluded General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which focused on the Word of God.
The goal is to find ways to make the bible more accessible to people in the computer age.
Edmund Powers is the Abbot of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls.
He told us about how monks, who in the past copied the manuscripts of the Bible in order to transmit the Word of God, must now learn a new technology...