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Connections

Welcome to Connections, an interactive resource for exploring biblical people, places, tribes, and themes. This project visualizes relationships across the Bible and related sources, providing a rich reference for pastors, scholars, and curious readers alike.

Connections was created by a software engineer with a passion for biblical studies. It applies network and graph theory to connect ideas, themes, people, and places, offering both intuitive exploration and scholarly depth.

Quick Start

Explore a randomly selected person, place, theme, or concept from the biblical connections database. Or start with Bethlehem, Rahab, barley, or Jesus to see how it works!

What Connections Does

  • Maps biblical relationships: who is connected to whom, familial lineages, tribal affiliations, and thematic links.
  • Each page includes references, notes, and visualizations showing its connections to other pages.
  • Includes Old Testament, New Testament, and extra-biblical references for every page.
  • Highlights strong and weak connections to help identify important links and scholarly debates.
  • Supports modular expansion: new pages, connections, or categories can be added via structured data (YAML) files.

How to Use

Browsing

  • Search for primary agents like People, Places, Tribes, and Themes using the search bar.
  • Click on a page to view detailed information, references, notes, and visualizations of its connections.

References

  • Biblical references link to authoritative sources (BibleHub).
  • Academic and extra-biblical references are listed for further study.

Visualizations

  • Each page may include charts showing connections (family, groups, themes).
  • Charts are generated from the underlying data, so new pages automatically appear.