25 August 2022

A general visualization

Today's blog entry is just a quick graphical overview of the work done so far. In the following GIF animation the connections between the LXX (in yellow) and SBLGNT (in cyan) books are shown.

An edge connecting two books means that there is at least one verified quotation in the SBLGNT book, quoted from the LXX book. If an edge is labeled with a number, then multiple verified quotations exist. “Verified” means manual verification here.



(If you have a small screen, it is recommended to download this file first and open it in a new tab in a full screen sized window.)

This figure was created with the GraphViz program. The first versions did not use manual positioning of the nodes. Instead, some random positions were introduced by GraphViz. Those first figures were too chaotic for the first glance – thus I decided to fix the positions to communicate a systematic layout of the books in this presented version.

In the figure, certain nodes are lighter: they play a role among the quotations. Non-cited LXX books or SBLGNT books that do not contain a verified quotation are colored somewhat darker.

Some people may find the animation annoying. For them I provide a static version with all connections (with dotted lines) shown at the same time:



(If you have a small screen, download this file first and open it in a larger window.)

I presented this figure at the Sunday sermon of the local Baptist church in Csongrád, Hungary, 21 August 2022, as a first public communication of my work.

Acknowledgment

My friend Csaba Faragó helped me improve the first version of this entry.

Entries on topic internal references in the Bible

  1. Web version of bibref (12 January 2022)
  2. Order in chaos (17 January 2022)
  3. Reproducibility and imperfection (20 January 2022)
  4. A student of Gamaliel's (23 January 2022)
  5. Non-literal matches in the Romans (26 January 2022)
  6. Literal matches: minimal uniquity and maximal extension (31 January 2022)
  7. Literal matches: the minunique and getrefs algorithms (1 February 2022)
  8. Non-literal matches: Jaccard distance (2 February 2022)
  9. Non-literal matches in the Romans: Part 2 (3 February 2022)
  10. A summary on the Romans (5 February 2022)
  11. The Psalms (6 February 2022)
  12. The Psalms: Part 2 (7 February 2022)
  13. A classification of structure diagrams (15 February 2022)
  14. Isaiah: Part 1 (19 February 2022)
  15. Isaiah: Part 2 (26 February 2022)
  16. Isaiah: Part 3 (2 March 2022)
  17. Isaiah: Part 4 (7 March 2022)
  18. Isaiah: Part 5 (15 March 2022)
  19. Isaiah: Part 6 (23 March 2022)
  20. Isaiah: Part 7 (30 March 2022)
  21. A summary (7 April 2022)
  22. On the Wuppertal Project, concerning Matthew (17 July 2022)
  23. Matthew, a summary (25 July 2022)
  24. Isaiah, a second summary (31 July 2022)
  25. Long false positives (23 August 2022)
  26. A general visualization (25 August 2022)
  27. Stephen's defense speech (19 September 2022)
  28. Statistical Restoration Greek New Testament (31 July 2023)
  29. Qt version of bibref (11 March 2024)
  30. Statements on Bible references (5 August 2024)
Zoltán Kovács
Linz School of Education
Johannes Kepler University
Altenberger Strasse 69
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