Technology in Scripture

Written by: Sean Boisen

John Dyer points to a effort by Matthew Clarke to catalog references to technology in the Bible at WikiChristian. I really like the idea of looking at the Bible through technology glasses.

• Technology in the Bible provides an overview, including some metaphors and domain-level groupings (medicine, agriculture, military, etc.). I found his collection on God’s use of technology particularly interesting.
• Biblical References to Technology catalogs many verses with a brief comment on the technology involved.

If you have Logos 4, you can easily play along using the Biblical Things feature (brief tutorial video), which provides a comprehensive list of references for all the physical, depictable artifacts of technology (though not more abstract things like metal refining techniques).

This kind of broad study across the whole of Scripture can provide new perspectives on things that, in their immediate context, often go right by us.

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