{"id":970,"date":"2015-05-13T19:47:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T23:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2016-01-21T23:14:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T03:14:55","slug":"sixteenth-century-bible-study-flowchart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/sixteenth-century-bible-study-flowchart\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sixteenth-Century Bible Study Flowchart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many printings of the Geneva Bible after 1579 contain the following flowchart by T. Grashop. This flowchart reflects the Renaissance obsession with ordering the world using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/04\/tree-diagrams-the-most-important-data-viz-tool-in-history\/\">tree diagrams<\/a> and presents a systematic approach to studying the Bible. I share it here to show that &#8220;mind-mapping&#8221; Bible study isn&#8217;t a new idea; it has extensive historical roots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2015-05-grashop-big.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2015-05-grashop-big.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Scan of the Grashop page from the Geneva Bible.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCredit: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ost-english-bible00lond\">archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is a reproduction I created with modernized spelling and design. <del>I particularly want to note the reference to Isaiah 29:36 in this chart. This verse doesn&#8217;t exist. If anyone knows what verse Grashop might have meant, especially as it relates to &#8220;Superstition be avoided&#8221; when studying the Bible, I&#8217;d be interested in correcting this 400-year-old typo.<\/del> <ins>Sean Boisen in the comments presents a plausible case that it should be Isaiah 2:6.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2015-05-grashop-big.png\"><img src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2015-05-grashop-small.png\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Revised version of Grashop's flowchart.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also available in PDF: <a href=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2015-05-grashop-page.pdf\">8.5&#215;11 inches<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2015-05-grashop-full.pdf\">8.5&#215;14 inches<\/a> (full size).<\/p>\n<p>I consider all these Grashop-related files to be in the public domain; if you want to reuse them, you don&#8217;t need to credit anyone.<\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many printings of the Geneva Bible after 1579 contain the following flowchart by T. Grashop. This flowchart reflects the Renaissance obsession with ordering the world using tree diagrams and presents a systematic approach to studying the Bible. I share it here to show that &#8220;mind-mapping&#8221; Bible study isn&#8217;t a new idea; it has extensive historical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}