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October 9, 2008

The Bible as One Story

Among National Geographic's Honorable Mentions for the best pictures of 2008 was this one, entitled "Visualizing the Bible."  The picture was an entry of Carnegie Mellon's Chris Harrison and German Evangelical Lutheran pastor Christoph Romhild in the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge and shows how interconnected the text of Scripture is: 

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The Bible's 1,189 chapters are plotted along the horizontal axis at the bottom of the image, with each bar's length determined by the number of verses. The arcs above the graph show the 63,779 cross-references between each chapter. 
Now, if only we would read it like this...

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