Labs

Small experiments with Bible data.

Interactive 3D Herod’s Temple (July 2026)

Spin, pan, and zoom around a 3D model of Herod’s Temple, circa AD 30.
An overhead view of the center of the Temple complex.

AI-Enhanced Aerial Photos of Palestine from 1917-1918 (June 2026)

Browse 100 aerial photos taken by the German Air Force in 1917-1918, enhanced with AI.
Tabor and eastern Galilee. View toward the southwest.
Tabor and eastern Galilee. View toward the southwest.

Bible Cartography Survey (May 2026)

Browse 513 Bible maps created since 1912.
Reading the New Testament for Understanding
Reading the New Testament for Understanding
Robert G. Hoerber · Concordia · 1986

AI-Generated Leviticus Flowcharts (November 2025)

76 Flowcharts that Help Explain Leviticus.
Fat and Blood Regulations
Fat and Blood Regulations

AI-Generated Holy Land Maps (November 2025)

207 AI-Generated Maps of the Holy Land.
A map where all terrain forms are rendered with sharp, perfect-edged color shapes — deserts, valleys, rivers, coasts — highly geometric, no gradients, just layered flat fields of color arranged into the real land.
Hard-Edge Abstract Land Map

Bible Section Sankey Diagrams (October 2024)

Explore how different translations delineate sections in Bible books.
Visit the Sankey diagrams

AI Sermon Outline Generator (January 2023)

Generate sermon outlines with AI, starting with a Bible passage.
Visit the AI sermon generator

2023 Cross Reference Bible Reading Plan (December 2022)

Read through Hebrews one verse every day along with its cross references to understand how the verse fits into the larger story of Scripture. AI-generated content explains how the main verse and each cross reference relate to each other.

AI-Assisted Bible Study (August 2022)

Explore AI-assisted Bible study with AI-generated prompts for each chapter of the Bible. Vote on helpful or unhelpful prompts.
Visit AI-assisted Bible study

AI-Generated Bible Art (July 2022)

1,734 Bible illustrations created by AI.
DALL·E 2: "All Things are Possible" inspired by Domingo Zapata. Oil on Canvas. A brightly-colored and hopeful painting that speaks to the possibility of what we can achieve. It features a kneeling man, surrounded by a swirling vortex of colors and patterns.
"I can do all things through God who strengthens me" (Phil 4:13)

Historical Twitter Lent Tracker (March 2014)

What Twitterers have been giving up for Lent since 2009.
For example, see what fast-food restaurants people are giving up.

Kids’ Bible Stories throughout History (November 2013)

Popular stories from kids’ Bibles from 1830 to 2013.
Visit Kids’ Bibles

Bible Cross References Interactive Visualization (February 2012)

Visualize Bible cross references at a book level.
Visit Bible Cross References visualization

Bible Reference Parser Demo (November 2011)

A demonstration of a Javascript Bible reference parser: enter text and watch the computer interpret the Bible passage references (e.g., John 3:16) it contains. It’s not actually very exciting: it just demonstrates code hosted on Github.

Text Year Calculator (December 2010)

Calculate the average year of the vocabulary used in text.

Bible Cross References (April 2010)

Browse over 340,000 cross references in the Bible.
Visit Bible Cross References

Bible Translation “Personas” (September 2009)

Personality profiles of English Bible translations.
Visit Bible Translation Personas

Bible Translation Googleshare (November 2008)

The relative popularity of English Bible translations, as inferred from public Google data.
The chart is generated by Google.

Bible Sentence Paths (April 2008)

Visualize sentence paths. Every word is a pixel; every sentence is a line. Turn right for every new sentence and add some metadata.
Visit Bible Word Paths

Bible Verse Photo Composites (February 2008)

See a photo composite for each verse in the Bible based on Flickr images.

Bible Word Locator (September 2007)

Explore the frequency and dispersion of words in the Bible.

Bible Book Browser (August 2007)

Browse to any chapter in the Bible instantly.