{"id":214,"date":"2010-04-16T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2016-02-06T11:42:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T15:42:05","slug":"bible-cross-references-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2010\/04\/bible-cross-references-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Cross References Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a visualization of 340,000 Bible cross references<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Visualization<\/a>
\nLarger version<\/a> (2,000 x 1,600 pixels).<\/p>\n

Does anything strike you as intriguing? A few trends jump out at me:<\/p>\n

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  1. The frequency of dense New Testament streaks in the Old Testament, especially in Leviticus and Deuteronomy; I didn’t expect to see them there.<\/li>\n
  2. The loops in Samuel \/ Kings \/ Chronicles and in the Gospels indicating parallel stories.<\/li>\n
  3. The sudden increased density of New Testament references in Psalms through Isaiah.<\/li>\n
  4. The eschatological references in Isaiah and Daniel.<\/li>\n
  5. The density of references from the Minor Prophets back to both the Major Prophets and earlier in the Old Testament.<\/li>\n
  6. The surprising density of cross references in Hebrew-Jude.<\/li>\n
  7. The asymmetry. If verse A cites verse B, verse B doesn’t necessarily cite verse A. I wonder if I should make the data symmetrical.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can also download the full-size image<\/a> (10,000 x 8,000 pixels, 75 MB PNG). It’s a very large image that could crash your browser. If you want it, I strongly recommend that you save it to your computer rather than trying to open it in your browser.<\/p>\n

    This visualization uses data from the Bible Cross References<\/a> project. I used PHP’s GD library to create the graphic.<\/p>\n

    Inspired by Chris Harrison<\/a> and Christian Swinehart’s wonderful Choose Your Own Adventure<\/a> work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here’s a visualization of 340,000 Bible cross references: Larger version (2,000 x 1,600 pixels). Does anything strike you as intriguing? A few trends jump out at me: The frequency of dense New Testament streaks in the Old Testament, especially in Leviticus and Deuteronomy; I didn’t expect to see them there. The loops in Samuel \/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}