Social relationships in the Bible graphed

Chris Harrison's "Visualizing the Bible" project maps every social relationship and cross-reference in the Bible, as compiled by Christoph Römhild. Link (via Kottke)

[#1 posted by mikey p , January 25, 2008 12:26 AM]

i like that way that, if i knew nothing about the bible other than what i could work out from these charts, i'd assume jesus was a minor character in it. notable, but still minor.

also, it kind of recasts the bible for me as being less about interesting and unusual people like jesus and moses and more about geography.

[#2 posted by dargaud , January 25, 2008 1:10 AM]

How can this make sense when nearly all the women in that book are called Mary ?!?

[#3 posted by joojoo , January 25, 2008 5:31 AM]

who wants to make a bible friend wheel like on facebook?

[#4 posted by James David , January 25, 2008 6:32 AM]

This reminds me of "Similar Diversity," which was an art exhibit that visualized the scripts from the five major religions' holy scriptures. It's one of my favorite stories from last year. Read more about it here:

http://blog.groundswellcollective.com/2007/09/22/similar-diversity/

[#5 posted by airship , January 25, 2008 6:45 AM]

The cast of players in the Bible makes the list of characters in even the thickest and most convoluted Victorian novel look as short as a list of W's bestest friends. It's cool to have a chart that ties them all together.

[#6 posted by Eduardo Padoan , January 25, 2008 9:08 AM]

I'm no great fan of christian mithology, so I wasn't aware that Antioch was on the bible. But the joke was fun anyway.

[#7 posted by Cpt. Tim , January 25, 2008 9:22 AM]

neat.

[#8 posted by angusm , January 25, 2008 11:33 AM]

I am thrilled by the idea of a semantic network with links titled "begat", "smote" and "coveted". So much more interesting than the boring "is-a", "owns", and "knows" that you get in introductory AI classes.

[#9 posted by Foolster41 , January 25, 2008 10:40 PM]

This looks pretty cool.