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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.25pt;background:#FCFCFC"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Please excuse duplicate postings.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.25pt;background:#FCFCFC"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Professor to Explain ‘Why Everything You Know About the Bible Is Wrong,’ Oct. 6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:#FCFCFC"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Robert Fowler, Ph.D., professor of religion at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, will be the keynote speaker for the fall 2014
symposium for the Center for the Study of Information and Religion (CSIR), a research initiative of the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University. His presentation is titled "The Gutenberg Parenthesis of the Bible, or Why Everything
You Know About the Bible Is Wrong."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The symposium will be held at Kent State University on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Monday,
Oct. 6, at 7 p.m.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">in Room 317 in the Student
Center. The event is free and open to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In his keynote address, Fowler will use the Bible, a body of material that has seen every era of media history, as a textbook example to discuss the theory of the "Gutenberg Parenthesis."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Prior to the invention of the Gutenberg printing press, the Bible was not the printed book we know it to be today. Fowler will walk his audience through the four eras of human communication
- oral, handwritten, printed and electronic - to demonstrate how the Bible is once again changing in the dawn of the Electronic Age.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Fowler explains, “Living as we do today in a transitional moment between two grand eras in media history -- the ages of print and electronic communication -- circumstances have arisen
in which we are able to better understand how humans communicated in each of these eras.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Scholars have observed how the transition into electronic culture seems to replicate a number of the attitudes and habits of ancient orality and the need to consider the likelihood that
the printed Bible is a product of the intervening “Gutenberg Parenthesis.” The Gutenberg Parenthesis of the Bible can be seen as a relatively brief span of time in the vast history of the Bible, a momentary departure from the dominant media attitudes and habits
that preceded it and that are re-emerging again in the Electronic Age.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Fowler earned his Ph.D in Bible from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. For 34 years, Fowler has taught in the Department of Religion at Baldwin Wallace University, Berea,
Ohio, where he currently holds a position as professor of religion. For 21 years, he was the chairperson of the department. Among the courses on the Bible that he regularly teaches is "History of the Bible," which he describes as a survey of the media history
of the Bible, from ancient oral culture to the Electronic Age.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Perhaps Fowler's best known works are his literary-critical studies of the Gospel of Mark:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Loaves
and Fishes: The Function of the Feeding Stories in the Gospel of Mark</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Society of Biblical Literature) and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Let
the Reader Understand: Reader- Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Trinity Press International).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Fowler is also a member of "The Bible and Culture Collective," where he collaborated in the writing of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
Postmodern Bible</span></em>(Yale University Press).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">CSIR is a research initiative of the School of Library and Information Science. Its goal is to facilitate research on the various institutions and agents of religion. In addition to
the annual fall symposium, CSIR hosts an annual spring conference that attracts scholars from around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University offers a Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) and Master of Science in Information Architecture
and Knowledge Management (IAKM). In addition, the school participates in an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the College of Communication and Information. With more than 700 students enrolled, SLIS has the largest graduate program at Kent State. Its M.L.I.S. is
the only American Library Association-accredited master’s program in Ohio, and is recognized by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">U.S. News and World Report</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>among
the nation’s top 20 LIS programs, with a youth services program that is ranked 10th. For more information, visit<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.kent.edu/slis"><span style="color:#333333">www.kent.edu/slis</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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