#BIBLE ANALYZER STORE SOFTWARE#

Only the most expensive software packages have anything detailed, searchable, and linked back to the text. There are some great timelines that align biblical and world events. It wouldn’t be too hard to do some comparisons and trends. How common is it for people to give biblical names to their children? The Social Security Administration releases baby name popularity data every year. My three sons are named after people in the Old Testament.

Wouldn’t it be interesting to compare phrases from the Bible (for a given English translation) with those in other books? What can that tell us about the influence the King James Version or Geneva Bible had on our language over time (don’t miss this video on common sayings we got from the KJV)? There are some pitfalls to such analysis, but still plenty of value to uncover. You can easily explore a string of words with their n-gram viewer, too. They shared data showing the frequency of single words and phrases “n” words long. Google has 520 million English words scanned from books all the way back to 1500 A.D. I like how Logos Bible Software does this and wish there were a tool like it online for free. Now, I’d like to remake that exploratory tool and add features using JavaScript. I abandoned further development once I realized Flash was all but dead. The original version of this complete biblical genealogy graphic was an Adobe Flash application that zoomed in on people when searching and highlighted their complete lineage. We should do the same for maps of ancient Israel, surrounding kingdoms, and New Testament lands. The Pelagios project hosts a map like this of the ancient Greco-Roman world. Unlike static images, these maps would show regional names first, reveal large cities after zooming, then smaller areas when zooming further. New features from Mapbox and Carto are making it easier to create custom maps that could show ancient place names and borders. All of these use background layers which show modern borders and roads or else show little more than land features. I have a map at viz.bible/explore/places with marks sized by verse count. Some sites show places from the Bible overlaid as default placemarks on a standard Google map. Visually encoding broad themes and connections among biblical subjects is an effective way to do that (and we’ve been doing it for centuries). I want to learn something from it, then teach others what I’ve learned. If you make solid progress or want to work together, let me know.

If you have found this list of ideas and know a thing or two about technology, find a section below that matches your passion. I’m asking for help from the rare people interested in the Bible who also have skills wrangling data or writing code. Now, there are more things on my list than I can ever create by myself. Over the years, I’ve built a collection of Bible-related data, created visualizations, and developed several ways to explore interesting facts. Nearly every week I dream of new ways to communicate scripture in a digital world. Ideas pile up in my notebooks and spreadsheets at a faster pace than I can check them off.

Bible analyzer store