Wordle
From wordle.net:
“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.”
The ESV Blog has depictions of the New Testament and entire Bible done in this format- it has been “wordled”. Interesting to see which words get prominence. Here’s the New Testament:
(HT: ESV Blog, Justin Taylor)
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June 20th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
What’s interesting is what ISN’T prominent…”love” and “heaven” is smaller, but there isn’t much about “man” or “hell” (which surprises me somewhat)…it’s nice to see the identity of God is fairly pronounced…shows what is really the center of everything…
June 20th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Good observation. I’d like to figure out how to input certain books of the Bible for myself. I saw one example done with the gospel of John that was interesting.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
This particular example of a word cloud has been rendered artistically (i.e. the vertical lines, the type face). Very visually appealing, but I would imagine that in the rendering, some artistic license was taken.
So an accurate word cloud from the actual text could look much different, and could show better representation of what a concordance would show textually. THAT cloud would be interesting to see.
I wouldn’t take any theological stances on this very attractive rendering.
But it does make great blog art.
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