Red Sky at Morning
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One thing that helped me appreciate the Bible was the interconnected nature of it. Minor events and asides that a particular author may not have fully understood when they wrote it are picked up elsewhere as a wider tapestry emerges.Just start with just the Torah ("Pentetuch") and leave apocalypticism and fanaticism aside, don't make any assumptions whether Jews or Christians are correct (when Samaritans could be) just dive into the foundation itself without preconceptions.
^ This is about how the bible speaks to itself - or the textual cross-references within it. The bar graph that runs along the bottom represents all of the chapters in the Bible. Books alternate between white and light gray and the length of each bar denotes the number of verses in the chapter. Each of the 63,779 cross references found in the Bible is depicted by a single arc - the color corresponds to the distance between the two chapters, creating a rainbow-like effect.
Photograph: Christoph Römhild and Chris Harrison