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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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 :)
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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.
Very cool.
I think that the symmetry comes from the fact that Psalms is in the middle of the bible and also has the most verses.
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“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”.
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