{"id":8443,"date":"2012-07-19T18:56:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T22:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=8443"},"modified":"2012-07-19T18:56:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T22:56:26","slug":"interactive-bible-genesis-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/07\/interactive-bible-genesis-13.html","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Bible: Genesis 1:3"},"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> Many readers will know that a while back I worked on developing <a href=\"http:\/\/blue.butler.edu\/~jfmcgrat\/Interactive\/Bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\">a prototype of an online Interactive Bible textbook (which you can still read and explore online)<\/a>. It covered introductory topics and I wrestled with how to tackle the next section, starting with the early chapters of Genesis. As I will be doing further work on this in preparation for offering my course on the Bible online next summer, I was delighted when <a href=\"http:\/\/zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/18\/let-there-be-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim West shared an idea for an interactive approach to Genesis 1:3 on his blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/07\/wpid-Photo-Jul-19-2012-653-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/07\/wpid-Photo-Jul-19-2012-653-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"273\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many readers will know that a while back I worked on developing a prototype of an online Interactive Bible textbook (which you can still read and explore online). 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