{"id":21,"date":"2007-06-09T23:02:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T03:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2007\/06\/new-feature-topical-bible\/"},"modified":"2016-02-06T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T15:18:58","slug":"new-feature-topical-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2007\/06\/new-feature-topical-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"New Feature: Topical Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s really more of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/topics\/\">web 2.0 topical Bible mashup<\/a>. Some popular topics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/topics\/marriage\">marriage<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/topics\/divorce\">divorce<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/topics\/gambling\">gambling<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/topics\/dating\">dating<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/topics\/harry_potter\">Harry Potter<\/a>. (Try finding <cite>Harry Potter<\/cite> in your <cite>Nave\u2019s Topical Bible<\/cite>.)<\/p>\n<p>The topical Bible combines the Yahoo! and ESV Bible web services to identify topics and find relevant verses. It currently has about 4,000 topics. Searching for a topic that doesn\u2019t exist will automatically add it to the topical Bible, which will then scour the Internet for relevant verses.<\/p>\n<p>You can vote on whether the listed verses are relevant to the topic\u2014or you can suggest new verses. Over time, the topical Bible should become better at identifying what people think the Bible says about a topic.<\/p>\n<p>More technical details will follow, but I wanted to post it and let you try it out. It\u2019s still a work-in-progress, but what isn\u2019t these days?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a screenshot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/topics\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2007-06-topical.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"602\" alt=\"Visit the topical Bible\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s really more of a web 2.0 topical Bible mashup. Some popular topics: marriage, divorce, gambling, dating, Harry Potter. (Try finding Harry Potter in your Nave\u2019s Topical Bible.) The topical Bible combines the Yahoo! and ESV Bible web services to identify topics and find relevant verses. It currently has about 4,000 topics. Searching for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}