Can you name the bible books by their popular story?

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Bible Books by Story Quiz

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Created Dec 1, 2009 in Religion
Featured Jan 22, 2010
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	LTH:	Jan 22nd, 2010 at 23:54 GMT		14 points
	The baptism of Jesus was in Mark and Luke also.

	David83:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 00:24 GMT		12 points
	and Solomon was in 2 Chronicles also

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	stephenbeck:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 03:09 GMT		8 points
	suggestions for other books: Jerusalem wall rebuilt: Nehemiah. Temple rebuilt: Ezra. God allows Satan to test a righteous man's faith: Job. Dry bones come to life: Ezekiel. Jerusalem the prostitute: Ezekiel/Hosea.

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	farmerdan:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 04:26 GMT		11 points
	umm which other Bible would it be?

	the_hamburglar:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 04:45 GMT		8 points
	I always liked this one: when Elisha's bones touched a dead man's body the dead man came to life.

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	WampaMauler:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 06:45 GMT		13 points
	I believe the Jewish community would prefer their scriptures to be called the Torah if we are being completely politically accurate.

	y2jdilemma:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 08:55 GMT		32 points
	I'll probably get voted down but I dont really care. There are 66 books in the Bible (73, if you're Catholic), and a 16 question quiz has Matthew as the answer for 3 of them? Genesis 2 more? I understand the "stories" are more well known for those books, but how about a little varriety?

	EGaffney:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 10:50 GMT		20 points
	I'd be interested to know whether those contributors offended by the use of the term "Bible" without specifying the religion would take the same position about all the USA-specific quizzes that use terms like "the Constitution" or "the Supreme Court" without specifying the country.

	Morby:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 12:44 GMT		13 points
	@kirrix and shwax- the Jews don't call their Holy Book the Bible, they call it the Torah. As far as I know, Christianity is the only major religion that calls their book The Bible. I think you're taking political correctness a little too far.

	DougButcher:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 14:31 GMT		24 points
	I'm pretty sure Creation being in Genesis should not stump 6.2 percent of people.

	shel99:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 15:02 GMT		25 points
	The Torah is only the first five books of Moses. If you include the rest of what Christians refer to as the Old Testament, it is called the Tanakh.

	kypzethdurron:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 17:17 GMT		4 points
	With over 30% at the moment for all the answers, it shows that the clues are well placed... SEQUEL!

	kirrix:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 19:04 GMT		9 points
	The Jewish Bible is in Hebrew called the Tanakh. The name is an acronym of the three major parts: Torah, Prophets, and Writings (the later two in Hebrew are Neviim and Ketuvim) giving us the three letters Tet, Nun, Kaf (which if at the end of the word becomes a Final Chaf) producing Tanakh. Don't tell me what we call our scripture. I went religious school for my entire life and my mother's a Rabbi. As for EGaffney's comment, I would fully support the renaming of the political quizzes so as to be labled specifically for the United States. And shel99, there is much in the Old Testament that is not in the Tanakh (Maccabees I & II for instance). They were largely left out by the Rabbis for political reasons.

	jef:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 19:36 GMT		4 points
	@kirrix i agree with you 100%, although i may have accidentally voted down your first comment instead of up, but i was thinking the exact same thing. Bible is just the english translation for 'Tanakh' or in hebrew, תנ"ך, the name of this quiz should definitely be changed to 'Christian Bible' or something of the sort. and @Morby, you are just completely wrong @WampaMauler as kirrix stated, our scriptures contain more than just the Torah, the Torah is within the Bible

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	alex97:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 22:48 GMT		10 points
	The Hebrew Bible is the Torah, Prophets, and Scriptures known collectively as Tanakh. The Torah is just the "5 Books of Moses."

	avgnyer68:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 23:40 GMT		7 points
	Maccabees 1 and 2 are apocrypha. the political reasons for them being left our were that the maccabees wrote the stories about themselves and their ancestors, so theyre pretty biased. all of the story of channukah as jews know and accept it comes from accounts of the war int he talmud, not from the aforementioned books. and yeah, fail due to not knowing christian stuff

	Rdub19:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 03:08 GMT		-2 points
	We call it the Tanakh... not the Hebrew Bible. In any event, the word Bible literally means book in Latin. While I'm sure people don't require the specificity, it would be more correct to specify the Christian Bible.

	myriadoflights:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 15:44 GMT		7 points
	@jonnyboy180: i think that while you might be right, the quiz asked for the popular Bible story, which is most definitely the sermon on the mount given by Jesus in Matthew. I'm not saying there aren't others, but the one by Jesus is definitely the most well-known.

	shel99:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 20:58 GMT		6 points
	@kirrix: I didn't know that about the Maccabees books. Thanks! You learn something new every day :)

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	Desiderata:	Jan 27th, 2010 at 20:36 GMT		10 points
	Mmm, I love me some Tanakh questions. It makes my religion degree feel useful, in a "no real world applications" kind of way.

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	queeniefrancie:	Feb 8th, 2010 at 18:01 GMT		3 points
	14/16... not bad, if i must pat myself on the back :) good quiz.

	shwax:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 04:00 GMT		1 point
	love all the non-Jews giving thumbs down to anyone who tries to say the the Tanakh is also considered a Bible. Just because you don't know it as being called the Bible because YOU don't call it the Bible doesn't mean other people don't call it the Bible.

	Stran:	Mar 6th, 2010 at 16:43 GMT		1 point
	Yay, I got them all! Brings back all my days in Sunday School :)

	bubbagumma:	Mar 13th, 2010 at 18:02 GMT		2 points
	Pleased to hear that memories of bygone days of Sunday School are being rekindled here and now, by Sporcle.