Saturday, November 22, 2008

Reference Rainbow


"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. Graphic by Chris Harrison, Carnegie Mellon University."

"This article first appeared in November 22, 2008 issue of Christianity Today. Used by permission of Christianity Today International, Carol Stream, IL 60188."

You can view the article on their web site here.
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2 comments:

Brandon and Jenny said...

That is incredible. Wow! I want to discover all of those correlations! What a cool picture. Off to read the article.

Dr. Russell Norman Murray said...

Excellent visual, Mike.

Happy Sunday.

Russ