{"id":27896,"date":"2015-01-01T12:44:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=27896"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:44:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:44:34","slug":"robo-scribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/01\/robo-scribe.html","title":{"rendered":"Robo-Scribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This post is not about the conservative religious\u00a0view of the Biblical authors and copyists, whose writing activity was supposedly\u00a0taken over by God to make God the author. No, this isn\u2019t a metaphor \u2013 it is about an actual robotic scribe! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblicalarchaeology.org\/daily\/news\/the-robo-scribe\/?mqsc=E3785794&amp;utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&amp;utm_medium=BHD+Daily%20Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=E5B101\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Bible History Daily<\/em> reported the story<\/a>, including the fact that the process does not produce a scroll that can be used in orthodox synagogues \u2013 not only because of the materials used in the process, but also because a robot (at least of the sort we are capable of making today) cannot write a Biblical text\u00a0<em>with reverence<\/em>. Do you think that might change one day?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a photo of robo-scribe from the article I mentioned:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-27897\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/01\/robo-scribe.jpg\" alt=\"robo-scribe\" width=\"465\" height=\"303\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is not about the conservative religious\u00a0view of the Biblical authors and copyists, whose writing activity was supposedly\u00a0taken over by God to make God the author. No, this isn\u2019t a metaphor \u2013 it is about an actual robotic scribe! Bible History Daily reported the story, including the fact that the process does not produce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":27897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,152,86,96],"tags":[10494,10497,10936,10944,12320,12761],"class_list":["post-27896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-judaism-religion","category-science-fiction","category-technology","tag-robot","tag-robotic","tag-scribe","tag-scroll","tag-technology","tag-torah"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Robo-Scribe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This post is not about the conservative religious\u00a0view of the Biblical authors and copyists, whose writing activity was supposedly\u00a0taken over by God to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/01\/robo-scribe.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robo-Scribe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This post is not about the conservative religious\u00a0view of the Biblical authors and copyists, whose writing activity was supposedly\u00a0taken over by God to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/01\/robo-scribe.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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