Visualizing the bible

Thanks to Bob for tipping me off about this site, which is the work of Chris Harrison, a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Harrison took names from the bible and plotted them using a computer program to create a visual representation of how they were connected to each other. It’s a beautiful representation. He also has a graphic having to do with place names, and the number of times they appear. I’m not entirely sure of the interpretive significance of any of this, but the pictures are beautiful and certainly highlight the deep relationality embedded in the biblical texts.