Study · Cut across the whole Bible
The Lenses
Pick a method; see everything it finds. Textually-real lenses present as discoveries; contested lenses present as exhibits: with the debate attached.
- 13lenses open
- 5families of method
- 4contestedlabeled at the door
The Text Quoting ItselfWhere Scripture cites Scripture: indexed mechanically, receipts attached.
2 lenses325 entries
Where Scripture cites Scripture: indexed mechanically, receipts attached.
- Floor index: always onThe Quotation WebEvery explicit place the New Testament quotes the Old: speaker named, receipt attached, every citation traced back to the verse it came from.276 receiptsText facing text
- Floor index: always onQuotation Formulas“It is written.” “That it might be fulfilled.” The introduction formulas of Scripture citing Scripture: mechanical, checkable, from our own tagged Greek.49 citationsA phrase and everywhere it introduces a quotation
The ArchitectureThe shapes the authors built: spines, alphabets, mirrors, bookends.
2 lenses41 pairs
The shapes the authors built: spines, alphabets, mirrors, bookends.
- Curated: published onlyChiasmsThe text that mirrors itself around its center, A, B, C, B′, A′, and puts the point at the pivot.9 pairsFolded around a centre
- Curated: published onlyInclusio & BookendsOpenings that return at the close: from single books to the whole canon (a tree in Eden, a tree in the New Jerusalem).32 pairsAn opening and its return
Words & ShadowsThe signals in the vocabulary, and the patterns that prefigure.
2 lenses1269 entries
The signals in the vocabulary, and the patterns that prefigure.
- Curated: published onlyTypologyPersons, events, and institutions that prefigure: led by the places the New Testament itself says so.116 pairsA shadow and the substance
- Floor index: always onRare WordsWords used only a handful of times in the whole canon: the text's own signal that the places they appear belong together.1,153 wordsCounted words
The Stones & the WitnessesEvidence outside the text, honestly weighed and graded.
3 lenses129 entries
Evidence outside the text, honestly weighed and graded.
- Evidence: gradedArchaeologyArtifacts and inscriptions keyed to passages, confidence-graded: the stones, honestly weighed.104 findsGraded finds
- Evidence: gradedChronologyThe timelines, side by side: never flattened to one column.10 findsDated records
- Evidence: gradedWhere the Manuscripts DifferThe places your Bible carries a footnote, the ending of Mark, the woman caught in adultery, the three heavenly witnesses, with the case each way and what it does and does not change.15 placesWhere the readings fork
Contested PatternsClaims presented and attributed, never adjudicated: the debate rides beside every claim.
4 lenses33 claims
Claims presented and attributed, never adjudicated: the debate rides beside every claim.
- Contested: labeled at the doorEquidistant Letter SequencesThe letter-interval claims: shown at full strength beside the full statistical debate. Present, attribute, let the reader weigh.8 claimsOne field, two readings
- Contested: labeled at the doorNumeric PatternsHeptads and number claims: the checkable counts separated from the statistical inferences, critiques attached.6 claimsOne field, two readings
- Contested: labeled at the doorGematriaLetter-values: the historically grounded cases distinguished from the speculative, each with its scholarship.10 claimsOne field, two readings
- Contested: labeled at the doorMazzarothThe gospel-in-the-stars tradition: documented as a tradition, weighed honestly, including the critiques from within.9 claimsOne field, two readings