Threads
One question, followed across the whole collection in the order the texts were written. This is the thing a chronological arrangement can show and a normal Bible cannot: an idea being asked, answered, contradicted and answered again over eight hundred years.
- Where do the dead go? 10 passages · II to IX
The Hebrew Bible begins with almost no afterlife at all. Watching one arrive, and when, is the clearest example of an idea developing inside these texts.
- Does God want sacrifice, or justice? 8 passages · II to IX
Every one of the earliest prophets attacks the sacrificial system. In composition order something surprising follows: the law prescribing those sacrifices reaches its final written form after they wrote.
- Who counts as one of us? 7 passages · III to IX
The collection does not speak with one voice about outsiders. It argues with itself, and in composition order you can see the argument happening.
- What is God like? 10 passages · I to IX
The oldest surviving line in this collection calls God a man of war. The latest says God is love. Everything in between is the same collection changing its mind, or being shown more.
- Why do the innocent suffer? 8 passages · III to IX
The collection states a rule, then spends centuries attacking it. This is the clearest case of these texts arguing with one another rather than agreeing.
- The New Testament quotes a book most Bibles leave out 4 passages · VI to IX
Jude cites Enoch by name, as prophecy. Because this collection carries both, you can read the quotation and its source together and check it yourself.
- Who wrote the Bible? 9 passages · III to IX
The most asked question about this collection, and the texts answer part of it themselves. Several of them describe being written, edited, burned, rewritten, abridged and read aloud, by people who give their names.
- Where does Satan come from? 11 passages · III to IX
The adversary of the New Testament is not in the earliest texts, and the road by which he arrives is one of the clearest developments in the collection. Twice a later book retells an older scene and gives to Satan what the older one gave to God.
- Can a marriage be ended? 6 passages · III to IX
One of the most searched questions put to this collection, and the collection does not answer it once. In composition order you can watch the answer tighten, and watch an exception appear.
- What may a woman do? 8 passages · III to IX
The single most asked question of this collection online. It is asked as though the answer were one sentence, and the collection contains a woman judging the nation, a woman authenticating scripture, and a letter forbidding women to teach.
- How does the world end? 10 passages · II to IX
The end is searched for more than almost anything else here, usually as though the collection contained one timetable. It contains a series of them, and the last writers are already explaining why the earlier ones have not happened.