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Reference Rainbow (What it looks like to graph the Bible's cross-references)
Christianity Today ^ | 11/20/2008 | Graphic by Chris Harrison

Posted on 11/21/2008 7:37:34 AM PST by Between the Lines

When Christoph Römhild, a Lutheran pastor in Hamburg, Germany, sent Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. student Chris Harrison a list of 63,779 cross-references between the Bible's 1,189 chapters, the two became enthralled with elegantly showing the interconnected nature of Scripture. Each bar along the horizontal axis represents a chapter, with the length determined by the number of verses. (Books alternate in color between white and light gray.) Colors represent the distance between references. The graph won an honorable mention in the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Science journal.


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1 posted on 11/21/2008 7:37:36 AM PST by Between the Lines
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To: Between the Lines

bump to read at home


2 posted on 11/21/2008 7:42:24 AM PST by pgkdan ( All Catholics should know supporting Obama constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.)
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To: Between the Lines

I would be interested to see him do the koran, the book of mormon, and of course, L Ron Hubbards masterpiece, Dianetics LOL. Scripture is stunning in a rainbow :)


3 posted on 11/21/2008 7:43:17 AM PST by wombtotomb (since its "above his paygrade", why can't we err on the side of caution about when life begins?)
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To: Between the Lines

read later


4 posted on 11/21/2008 8:02:34 AM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: wombtotomb
How about Dreams from my Father with Bill Ayers' Fugitive Days? Maybe throw in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.
5 posted on 11/21/2008 8:23:19 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: wombtotomb

I don’t want to throw water on this, but as long as any of those texts reference things from earlier within the work, you will get a graph like this.


6 posted on 11/21/2008 8:43:26 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Join the Constitution Party)
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To: Between the Lines

Very cool.


7 posted on 11/21/2008 8:46:03 AM PST by Silly (www.QuestionOthority.com)
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To: Between the Lines
Interesting..

I think that the symmetry comes from the fact that Psalms is in the middle of the bible and also has the most verses.

8 posted on 11/21/2008 9:34:09 AM PST by smokingfrog (If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer. - Ronald Reagan)
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bflr = bump for later reading


9 posted on 11/21/2008 10:55:25 AM PST by fishtank (The danger isn't that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. -Acton)
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To: FreeAtlanta

“as long as any of those texts reference things from earlier within the work, you will get a graph like this.”

Exactly. That’s why it’s called “cross-referencing”.


10 posted on 11/21/2008 6:11:52 PM PST by swmobuffalo ("We didn't seek the approval of Code Pink and MoveOn.org before deciding what to do")
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