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Visualizing Biblical Cross-References

January 24, 2009

I came across this about a month ago and was amazed by it: Chris Harrison, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon, along with Christoph Römhild, a Lutheran pastor, developed a gorgeous visualization of all of the over-63,000 cross-references in the Bible. In this graph, books and chapters of the Bible line the bottom bar, while arcs connect different chapters to each other across the main area of the image. You’ve got to see it for yourself — it is elegant and simply amazing. Check it out: Visualizing the Bible.

Additionally, you can scroll down to find a few visualizations that he has created which graph the people and places found in the Bible in a very unique way. I also recommend taking a look at some of his other visualizations, appropriately found on his Visualizations page.