Bible The

There is a new edition of the King James Bible called "Bible The".  It takes the King James translation and reorders all of the words in alphabetical order.

You can read about it here.  Here are some quotes.

A book can change everything. It can move us, make us feel, teach us things we never knew, open our eyes, and help us see the world from a completely different perspective. A book can alter the course of history and shape an entire civilisation. A book can change us to the very core. 

And yet at the same time, a book is just a collection of words placed in a specific sequential order. A complex literary algorithm crafted by its author. An algorithm that people might spend a lifetime studying, looking for meaning and answers, for inspiration and knowledge. 

What if we could beat that algorithm? Turn a book into something objective. Quantifiable. Analytical. So we can study the individual parts and learn new ways to read a text. If we look at books as datasets, we can see the statistical information within the writing, and discover insights that might otherwise be impossible to find. 

This is the first in a series of books to be transformed into data. Not just any books, but seminal books that have had a material impact on humanity. Using a custom made piece of software, we take the entire text of a book, and reorganise it alphabetically. That's right. Each book completely reorganised from A-Z. This distils each text down to its lowest common denominator. It highlights the importance people tend to place on the order of said words and their meaning and allows for new and interesting interpretations of the written word, in much the same way as an abstract painting might... 

 It is important to acknowledge that most people believe The Bible was written by men, almost 2000 years ago. Although their biases are most likely unconscious and cultural, their words speak for themselves. So does the data. And the data does not lie.