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Through A Bible Lens: Biblical Insights for Smartphone Photography and Social Media
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Product Description Through a Bible Lens teaches people of all faiths how biblical insights can transform smartphone photography and social media into imaginative ways for seeing spirituality in everyday life. It inspires the creation of a vibrant dialogue between one's emerging life story and the enduring biblical narrative. Professor Alexenberg teaches both young and old the most up-to-date thoughts on interactions between the Bible and the impact of new technologies on contemporary life. He speaks to millennials in the language of digital culture. Christians and Jews should buy this book for themselves as well as for their children and grandchildren. We are fortunate to be living in age of digital technologies that gives us ways to experience invisible worlds becoming visible. These experiences give clues that help us appreciate the insightful imagination of ancient spiritual teachers who visualized invisible realms. Smartphones are gateways to the world that make invisible realms blanketing our planet become visible with a flick of a finger. A smartphone lens captures images, stores them as invisible bits and bytes, and displays them as colorful pictures. In all of human history, never has there been such a proliferation of images. A centuries-old Jewish method of Bible study called PaRDeS offers creative ways for looking beyond the surface of smartphone images by extending contemporary methods of photographic analysis to reveal spiritual significance. Review "Through a Bible Lens offers a unique and personal challenge to the reader to integrate Bible Study, the creation that surrounds us, and our personal experience into a "living journal." This book will be a joy to any lover of the Bible, Christian or Jewish. I not only endorse it, I look forward to integrating these ideas into my personal encounter with Scripture."- Dr. Jim Solberg, author of Sinai Speaks; USA National Director ofBridges for Peace "The iPhone has changed our culture and our ways of thinking and acting in the world. This book brings together spiritual thought, everyday practices of communication and interaction and profound insights about meaning and purpose in contemporary life in a brilliant and sustained exposition. Alexenberg has carved out a unique point of view that deserves the highest praise and a large readership.Great book!!" - Dr. Ron Burnett, author of How Images Think;president, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada "Mel Alexenberg's important book, Through a Bible Lens provides our generation the perfect model for the best usage of smartphones and social media to encourage greater appreciation for the Bible and the Land of Israel. Anyone who appreciates either will gain an important perspective from Alexenberg's lens." - Rabbi Tuly Weisz, editor of The Israel Bible; director of Israel365 and publisher of Breaking Israel News: Latest News from a Biblical Perspective "If a picture is worth a thousand words, Through a Bible Lens offers a template,a guidebook on how to experience innumerable images of the Divine in every moment and use blogging technology to disseminate them worldwide. Professor Mel Alexenberg invites us to share the story of our own Divine journey through the wisdom found in this unique book." - Bishop Robert Stearns, Executive Director, Eagles' Wings, New York "An intellectually exciting book that stimulates the sensory palate. Drawing from the Kabbalah and Hebrew traditions, Dr. Alexenberg shares in-depth, meaningful insights about encountering God in the creative process through photography. - T. Mandel Chenoweth, head of the Art Education Department, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma "The book's wonderful synthesis between spirituality and technology, heaven and earth, is exciting and thought-provoking. Alexenberg's affirmation of the spiritual potential of the Internet,blogging, photography, new technologies and social media, brings to mi
