Disclaimer: this isn't fully built yet :'( just an idea had that I'd like to work on "soon"...
Explore the Story of Scripture
Biblia Chronos is an open-source project that helps people explore the Bible through interactive timelines, maps, genealogies, and other visualizations.
The goal is simple: make it easier to see how the people, places, kingdoms, and events of Scripture fit together.
- Interactive biblical timelines
- Maps
- Genealogies
- Kings and prophets
- Ancient kingdoms and empires
- Biblical journeys
- Scripture references
The first visualization follows the history of Israel from Abraham through the early church.
It includes:
- Patriarchs
- Exodus
- Judges
- United Kingdom
- Divided Kingdom
- Assyrian and Babylonian Exiles
- Return from Exile
- Life of Christ
- Early Church
Explore people, events, kingdoms, and prophets, and see how they connect across biblical history.
- Kings & Prophets
- Genealogy Explorer
- Paul's Missionary Journeys
- Exodus Route
- Life of Christ
- Harmony of the Gospels
- Acts Timeline
- Temple & Tabernacle
- Biblical Nations and Empires
- Scripture first
- Historically informed
- Interactive
- Open source
When historical dates or interpretations differ, the project aims to present the evidence clearly and fairly.
These shape technical decisions.
- Desktop-first, mobile-capable — the primary experience is large screens; mobile must work well but is the secondary target.
- Performance is a feature — fast first paint, minimal JavaScript, visualizations that feel instant.
- Simple, well-formed code — readable over clever, a low barrier for contributors, TypeScript throughout.
- Open and static — fully static output, hostable on GitHub Pages or any simple container. No server, no runtime database, no per-user state at this point.
Stack: Astro (static) + Svelte islands + TypeScript, with D3 modules and MapLibre GL for visualizations. Curated data lives as human-readable files in git (the source of truth), may be validated and compiled at build time, and ships as small static JSON bundles. Connections are explored as an in-memory graph — no database is shipped to the browser.
See ARCHITECTURE.md for more details.
The data is curated from openly licensed and public-domain sources, and every record carries a citation so readers can see where a date or claim comes from. Genealogies and scripture references are drawn directly from the biblical text. Good starting points include:
- Theographic Bible Metadata — people, places, events, and their relationships (CC-BY-SA)
- OpenBible.info and Pleiades — geocoded biblical and ancient-world places
- Wikidata (CC0) for cross-checking, and public-domain Bible dictionaries (ISBE, Easton's) for descriptions
- Scholarly chronologies (e.g. Thiele) for the contested dates, cited per record
Code is MIT; the curated data is licensed separately (likely CC-BY-SA to stay compatible with its sources). Please don't add data from copyrighted, restrictively licensed material.
Contributions are welcome — from biblical research and historical review to design and software development.
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