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Bible Books - Old Testament Quiz

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Created Dec 15, 2007 in Religion
Featured Dec 15, 2007
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	littlegoldwoman:	Jan 25th, 2009 at 20:19 GMT		-2 points
	I missed one. :-(

	OscilatingGibbon:	Jan 28th, 2009 at 14:01 GMT		8 points
	I always forget a couple of the minor prophets in this quiz. It's really interesting how some of the names such as Joel, Daniel and Ruth are still used today in the Western world whereas many are lost or corrupted beyond our recognition.

	mike3316:	Feb 2nd, 2009 at 20:14 GMT		0 points
	I missed seven of the minor prophets :-(

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	Miana90:	Feb 15th, 2009 at 18:41 GMT		7 points
	Very fun. I got all of them in order. Hurray!!

	samila:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 15:57 GMT		4 points
	I teach the books in classes, I just couldn't spell a couple of them. I have known them in order since I was a kid.

	ruthie_pee:	Mar 1st, 2009 at 17:19 GMT		13 points
	I think it would help to include in the instructions how to type the books that have 1 or 2 in front of them, because I was typing in every combination except the right one. :

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	thefinestmuffins:	Mar 13th, 2009 at 21:37 GMT		4 points
	agree with Anthony-- those should at least be bonus answers. If you grew up with those books but aren't a theology scholar, you (I!) would be very confused. I must've put in Judith and Wisdom a dozen different times, and tried a dozen different spellings of Maccabees.

	Alexis:	Mar 18th, 2009 at 04:04 GMT		4 points
	Anthony: Luther was only following established Jewish practice. The Christians added the Apocrypha to begin with. This was actually quite hard for me since in Jewish Bibles, the 12 minor prophets are one book! Also, different order, no split books.

	mjenks:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 20:26 GMT		14 points
	further proof that my ability to spell Old Testament names is subpar.

	pbrown:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 01:33 GMT		1 point
	I should know all these

	Dahlia:	Apr 7th, 2009 at 19:02 GMT		8 points
	Never seen Habbakuk spelled that way so I missed that one, and wrote "Kings I," "Samuel I," etc. so I missed those too...my lifelong Hebrew knowledge of the Bible did me no favors in this one.

	arabellafigg:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 16:49 GMT		7 points
	i wrote first samuel 1st samuel, didnt try 1 samuel, so didnt score on samuel, kings, chronicles which is annoying as i otherwise sis ok!

	BillyBlueJ:	May 12th, 2009 at 21:58 GMT		3 points
	You may want to change the title to say that it is the Protestant/King James Old Testament-you're missing part of the Catholic (Tobias/Tobit, Machabees 1 & 2, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, & Baruch), you could have them drop in as "extras" but to call this "Books of the Old Testament" is misleading as Tobias was the first one I put in after the Torah.

	Ichiban:	May 25th, 2009 at 03:51 GMT		-1 points
	I have a couple things to say... first of all YAY! I can do all of them in order in under 2 minutes. Second of all, Chris, the Bible books in this sporcle quiz are not just for Protestant and KJV Bibles, almost all sects of Christianity use these Bible Books. Oh, I lied one more thing, I agree with the other books being bonuses. :)

	4GodandNikhil:	Jun 3rd, 2009 at 00:29 GMT		4 points
	Yay! I got all of them in order in 1:30! My Sabbath School teacher would be happy!

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	sophicmuse:	Jun 29th, 2009 at 09:18 GMT		3 points
	I got the first five off the George Eats Lunch Next Door mmenonic. Knew that would come in handy someday!

	mfuller:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 04:31 GMT		3 points
	stupid spell check...

	Hamburger:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:35 GMT		4 points
	spelling by far and away my biggest issue.

	HarryNJ:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 14:55 GMT		5 points
	Mixed up the order of the numeral with Samuel, Kings, Chronicles. Maybe it could be made so the order doesn't matter.

	bostoncane:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 03:41 GMT		8 points
	The deuterocanonical books were not "added" to the Bible, they belonged to an even earlier canon than was being used in Jewish practice at the time.

	Loyal_Hawkeye:	Sep 16th, 2009 at 08:09 GMT		4 points
	My mother would be so disappointed in me right now, she was the one that taught me the song to know these!!

	zigs:	Sep 21st, 2009 at 03:12 GMT		10 points
	I was trying to type Samuel 1, Samuel ONE, Samuel I, Same with Kings and Chronicles. Didn't think to put the numeral before.

	leomontg:	Oct 2nd, 2009 at 15:28 GMT		4 points
	I always miss a couple of the minor prophets, must be why their called minor (although I still should have gotten Jonah, how can you forget the fish guy).

	rlouiser:	Oct 13th, 2009 at 18:34 GMT		-2 points
	I got them all right with 1:10 to spare. The reason it took so long; my spelling of some of those names are awful! Especially those minor prophets!!!

	wheatonbrando:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 18:45 GMT		-4 points
	I know no one cares, but I finished in 56 seconds on my first try. Angry that I spelled it "Habbakuk" though.

	gabrielseed:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 00:43 GMT		2 points
	Yes, these are also he books of the Jewish Bible (though they're technically counted as 24) - I eventually got all 39 in under 4 minuntes, but I agree with zigs that there should be more acceptable answers for Samuel, kings, chronicles in terms of where to put the number

	jcrow09:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 19:07 GMT		0 points
	rats. I missed nahum and habakkuk

	shortbish:	Jan 25th, 2010 at 23:21 GMT		1 point
	2 minutes. i guess the song i learned back in grade school really payed off. the spelling was a bit hard there at the end. but i managed

	TheAverageGuy:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 04:45 GMT		4 points
	Where is the deuterocannon? The first guy I typed in was my man Sirach?

	Ibarez:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 04:04 GMT		2 points
	I used to know these backwards and forwards back in Christian school. Now, I struggled to get 21 right...would have gotten 22 if I could have remembered how to spell Isaiah.

	vertigostick:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 10:16 GMT		3 points
	This is pretty easy if you know the song. :)

	Ross7694:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 01:50 GMT		3 points
	pretty good, though, it was the jewish/ protestant, not catholic, not a big deal, just saying

	willwoodlen:	Feb 24th, 2010 at 21:21 GMT		2 points
	fun quiz, but I'm with arabellafigg: it should have picked up equvalent ways of referring to the books of Samuel, Kings, etc.

	lee63:	Mar 19th, 2010 at 05:11 GMT		1 point
	I knew all these books but could not for the life of me spell Nahum, Habakkuk, or Zechariah.

	ari18:	Apr 9th, 2010 at 23:58 GMT		3 points
	great quiz! Not to harp on it, but I agree with everyone else about accepting different ways of typing kings, samuel etc.

	naala:	May 4th, 2010 at 21:33 GMT		1 point
	Kinda hard - I always had trouble memorizing the prophets! And it didn't help I learnt them in French, and I couldn't think what Ezra was (in French it's Esdras)