Explore — The Bible Revealed

Book Intro

What each book of the Bible is, before you read chapter 1.

An introduction to the Bible as a whole: what it is, how its 66 books are arranged, and the story they tell in one paragraph.
For each book, who wrote it and when, who it was for, what kind of writing it is, and a chapter-range outline that opens each section in the reader.
Where authorship or date is disputed, the traditional view and the main scholarly alternative are set side by side, without a verdict.
Each intro lists the book’s main people, places, eras and covenants, drawn from the site’s own data.

The units, money, calendar and creatures the text assumes you already know.

What a cubit, an ephah and a shekel actually are, in both metric and imperial, with the verse that defines each one.
Search it by name, by an older spelling, or by what a thing does — and it will still find the entry when the spelling is wrong.
Where scholars genuinely disagree, the range is given and the reason named, instead of a single figure presented as settled.
Every entry links to the chapters that use it, and to the units it is measured against.

Every named person in the Bible, each with a profile of their own.

Search the whole directory by name or by alias.
Filter to the Old or New Testament, and sort by name, by testament, or by how often someone is mentioned.
Each profile draws a family tree — parents, partners and children — that grows as you open people in it, rather than starting over.
Every scripture reference to that person, and every event they take part in, links straight to the chapter.

Every named place, from cities and regions to single wells and fields.

Search by name, filter by testament, and sort by name or by how often a place is named.
Each profile lists every scripture reference to the place and every event that happened there.
Places with known coordinates are pinned on the reader's map, so you can see where a chapter happens while you read it.
Journeys are drawn as routes across the map, in the order the text travels them.

The Bible's most significant events, in the order they happened.

Each event carries when it happened, how long it lasted, the chapters it is drawn from, and why it matters.
Filter the whole list down to the people present or the places involved, and combine the two.
The gaps between events are shown as they really are, so the long silences read as long.
Every event opens the chapter it begins in.

One age at a time, with its people, places and events side by side.

A ruler across the top gives each era a width drawn from how much happened in it.
Pick an era and the three panels fill with everyone named in it, everywhere it touches, and everything recorded.
Choose a person or a place and the rest narrows to match, so you can ask what else was happening around them.
Every event in the list links to the chapter that records it.

The whole canon on one axis, with lives, events and places read against each other.

Every era is a segment of the ruler, as wide as the years it covers — so the long silences look long.
Lifespans run as bars across it: the eleven antediluvian lives really are a quarter of recorded chronology, and the page does not hide that.
Event columns show when things happened rather than merely that they did; a tall column is a crowded century.
Drag across the ruler, or choose an era, to zoom a span — then the columns thin out until each holds one event you can open.

The agreements God makes and keeps, in the order they are cut.

The seven covenants in the order they are cut, each one narrowing who it is with and widening what it promises.
Who each is between, the era it falls in, and the sign scripture gives it — the rainbow, circumcision, the Sabbath.
Every chapter that records the making of one, and the stretch of text it governs, with a link straight into the reading.
The two that scripture never actually calls covenants say so on the card rather than being passed off as the other five.

Who is connected to whom, drawn as a graph.

One era at a time, its forty most-mentioned people, and only the links among them — the whole graph at once is a hairball nobody can read.
People are circles sized by how often scripture names them, events are squares, places are triangles.
Family, partners and shared events are stated by the text. Being named in the same verse is inferred, so it is off until you ask for it.
Choose anyone to light their links and list who they are nearest to, and by how much.

Where the Bible happens, travelled through time.

The map is the page; time is the control. Drag the scrubber, or press play, and travel the canon.
Places light as scripture first names them and stay lit, so the world builds up as you go rather than blinking in and out.
The 44 recorded journeys draw as routes in the order the text travels them — Abram out of Ur, Paul around the Aegean.
Three eras contain no located place at all, which the page shows honestly rather than filling in: Creation, the Exile and the Return.