The social data visualization site Many Eyes just unveiled a new visualization type, the Phrase Net, which illustrates phrase connections in textual content. The hard part is finding the right phrase to produce a good visualization.
Here are a couple of visualizations of the Old and New Testaments in the KJV Bible, using the pattern “[word] of [word].”
Old Testament
The Old Testament visualization illustrates the centrality of ideas like “Children of Israel,” “King of Israel,” and “Land of Israel.”
New Testament
The New Testament visualization shows the shift in emphasis to “Son of God” and “Kingdom of God.”
Both visualizations require Java.
Edit July 2015: IBM has closed Many Eyes, so the above links to the interactive visualizations no longer work.