In an attempt to build a worldwide community of Bible lovers and connect them to Israel's past and present, a group of volunteers from the Daily Bible Image Project have thought up an initiative to build the Bible's "visual genome," by uploading images that go along with Bible verses.
The team has reviewed the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible to find verses that can be visually represented. Verses were divided into four groups: places, customs, objects, and events.
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Work is currently underway to locate the over 1,100 places mentioned by name and have them photographed professionally.
Content collected for every Biblical theme for the selected verses is being digitally packaged into a "Visual Bible Capsule" that consists of a Bible verse and biblical description of its place, along with images of the subject, and some brief contemporary context.
A few hundred of these capsules are already online and can be accessed at no cost at DailyBibleImage.org. Subscribers can currently receive the daily images by email, and in the future by text message or through a mobile app, when those services launch.
The Daily Bible Image Project is the brainchild of the Council for the Promotion of Israel's Heritage Values volunteer association, which works on projects that seek to preserve the history of the Land of Israel and make it accessible to the public in innovative ways, with an emphasis on digital presentation.
According to David Sela, who chairs the Council for the Promotion of Israel's Heritage Values, the group estimates it will take them five to six more years of work to complete the visual genome project.
"But knowing the importance of this mission encourages us to continue working on this unique Biblical experience!" Sela said.
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