Explanation of the Colors in the Map.

A number of people who saw the Bible map have asked what the colors mean and what they have to do with the contents of each book. The first principle i followed in choosing the colors was to make each of the seven sections distinct by going through the rainbow once each section. This led to using the same set of colors for each section that had the same number of books which was good because it pointed out some of the correspondences between the different sections that have the same number of books. (the last three OT History Books are post exile as are the last three minor prophets for example) To make the set of twelve colors I subdivided the set of five colors which worked especially well for the history books since they seem to form a set of five sections naturally: pre-kingdom, Samuel, kings, chronicles, post-exile. It is interesting to note that both the first and the last section of these five has three books: the first two about "taking the land" and the last about a Godly woman. For the last section of 22 books going through the rainbow just once wouldn't work so i split it into five sections, Hebrews is green because it is just one book and is the third of those five, revelation is not purple because the book before it is, instead it is a shade of red, a new begin.