Turbulence Commission: "Exegesis" by Kushal Dave

Those Google guys, now they're getting weird in a biblical literary vein.
Gotta love it. And a student of Wattenburg! Even better!

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> Turbulence Commission: "Exegesis" by Kushal Dave
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> "Exegesis" is an attempt to understand how people quote the Bible
> - which parts they choose to quote, and why. It highlights the
> portions that appear most often on the web and presents excerpts
> from some of them.
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> The Bible is quoted in a range of contexts: political, academic,
> scientific, ethical, literary, and, of course, religious. All are
> on display, along with careful discussion about the meanings and
> implications of every line. Where the Bible is used to persuade,
> Dave is particularly interested in whether it is treated as a set
> of facts and literal dictates, or as an eloquent expression of
> subjective ideas. Many pages examine the subtleties, ambiguities
> and contradictions in the Bible, while others make explicit
> statements such as "God Hates Fags." "Amidst all this, though,"
> says Dave, "a picture of a beautiful and inspirational Bible
> emerges, with popular passages seemingly just as likely to be
> encouraging as proscriptive."
>
> "Exegesis" places a set of rules in motion. No editorial
> selection is applied.
>
> "Exegesis" is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts,
> Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made
> possible with funding from the Murray G. and Beatrice H. Sherman
> Charitable Trust.
>
> BIOGRAPHY
>
> Kushal Dave is a software engineer at Google, New York, where he
> works on a range of projects. His previous job was at IBM
> Research in Cambridge, where he had the privilege of catching the
> visualization bug while studying Slashdot, emails, and wikis with
> Martin Wattenberg. Kushal has long been obsessed with citation
> and commentary, having produced an annotated version of
> presidential debates and a program to analyze product reviews. He
> has a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University.
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