Christianity Today Online ran a story today about a project that interests me as a pastor, artist, and lover of the Bible. It's about the Saint John's Bible, a handwritten, illuminated manuscript of the Bible being produced over a ten-year period by a Benedictine monastery in Minnesota. The project brings together ancient and modern technologies in interesting ways. All materials - paints, vellum, pens, gilding - are made according to Medieval techniques, but the fonts are designed by the best modern calligraphers, the illuminations are contemporary, everything is arranged on the page by computer, and haggled over by e-mail.
The project will cost about 4 million dollars all told, and will result in one massive Bible. It's a strange and interesting project that I am glad to know about.