When reading Bible stories, most of us add to the text remembering details from the stories as we heard them not as the story appears in a particular text. This guide is intended to (1) keep the original analysis strictly on the text and then (2) to see where the other elements of our understanding come from.
Yes, this will require a bit of tagging and expansion of the LCV/Factbook but most of the data is available.
- Timeline - proposed dates for the person with link to relevant timeline
- Atlas - all locations explicitly related to events involving the person - linked in chronological order
- Social network - not currently available so a genealogy chart may be the best current data
- Information provided by explicit description - references to adjectives and adjectival phrases modifying the individual (at clause level)
- Information provided by the actions of the individual - individual's semantic role and verb (at the clause level) a stimulus/response chart would be apropros but the data is not available
- Information provided by the actions of others towards the individual - same information available as for 5 but here the emphasis is on what others' actions involving the individual tells us about them
- Information provided by the speech or writings of the individual - as these can be very long this is a simple list of references
- Information provided by retelling or referring to the person - again, a simple list of references
- Information provided by semi- or pseudo- scripture in the following divisions
- references from books included in some current canon but not in the users
- references from books that have at some time been included in a canon but are not now in any canon
- references from books that considered Gnostic material
- references from other apocryphal/pseudepigrapha material
Information that reflects the cultural milieu of the individual ... usually recorded much later:
- Jewish legendary references e.g. Ginzberg, Louis, Henrietta Szold, and Paul Radin. Legends of the Jews. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2003.
- references from the Talmud
- references from the Quran
Visual art representations of the individual (select media)
Literary art representations e.g. links to Jeffrey, David L. A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 1992.
