Test Oldtament

[dreamer_easy]

One of these JW mags quotes a guy who says that "knowledge of the Old Testament is fading fast among Christians and has virtually vanished in popular culture". So! Test yourself, Christians and others on my flist - without peeking at other comments, see if you can comment with five events from the OT. (If you actually do Bible study, you're disqualified! :-)

Comments

[matthewwolff.livejournal.com]

Ok, let's start easy.
1) Moses parts the red sea and leads the Israelites across to flee the pursuing Pharaoh.

2) Joseph is sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers.

3) Elijah holds a contest with the prophets of Baal to show the people which God is the true God. God sends fire down from Heaven to back Elijah up. The prophets of Baal are slain.

4) Sampson, shorn of his hair and without his great strength, a prisoner of the Philistines in their temple, prays for one last bout of great strength from God. Granted it, he topples the temple.

5) Elijah is taken into Heaven by God in a fiery chariot.

[ianmcin.livejournal.com]

I'll do the easy ones:

1. Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden
2. The Great Flood
3. Abraham being asked to sacrifice his son
4. Jacob and Esau's birthright-swapping
5. Moses and co.'s escape from Egypt

*thinks*

[queeniefox.livejournal.com]

1)Eve eats from the tree of knowledge
2) Joseph taken to Egypt as a slave
3) Moses taking the Hebrews out of Egypt
4) Lot's wife turning into a pillar of salt
5) Samsons hair getting cut off?

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

(Not peeking.)
Five events from the OT?

You have: creation of adam, creation of eve, eating of the fruit of knowledge, expulsion from eden, abel impersonating cain to receive his blessing, flood/noah's arc, covenant with the people (sealed with a rainbow). More at random: esther and ruth, joseph's being sold to egypt and his travels thereof. Moses in the river, being raised, talking to a burning bush, the start of passover by marking doors for exemption from g-d's wrath, parting of the red sea, wandering for 40 years or more, everytime g-d got pissed at the tribes for doing different things, getting the ten commandments, oh, abraham instructed to sacrifice isaac...

shall I stop now? I've only just got started... there's samson and delilah, there's daniel interpreting the dream with mene, mene, tekel, upharsin...jonah and the whale, elijah the prophet, sodom and gommorrah(sp), etc...

DQ

[thegameiam.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I'm DQed.

[lferion]

I'm so disqualified -- though I don't do Bible study an more, I do have an M.Div. :-)

But I'll list five anyway, in Honor of Madeline L'Engle

1. Jonah and the Whale -- have you ever read "Journey With Jonah? a wonderful play.

2. And God said: "Let there be Light!" And there was light.

3. Ruth gleaning the field, that she and her companion might have food to eat.

4. Judith dispatching Holofernes and saving her town.

5. Samuel waking up over and over again "I'm here, God!"

And bonus, from the Apocrypha: Tobit and the archangel Raphael.

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

1. Eviction of Adam & Eve for Apparently Beating God In A Trivia Game

2. Noah Lashes Together All the Huts and Escapes Gilligan's Island

3. Moses Escapes Soap Opera Life, Gets Everyone Lost In the Desert for 40 Years (and finally asks God for directions and realizes he should have been more specific)

4. God Wagers With Devil by Tormenting his Biggest Supporter

5. Solomon Offers To Chop Up Babies (Everyone decides he's Wise so he doesn't offer to chop up THEIR babies)

I can go on...

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

I should disqualify myself due to being raised going to Sunday School, but instead I'll see if I can come up with five less likely to be picked at random.

The devil makes Job's life miserable.
Jonah doesn't want to be a doomsayer so JHVH sends a whale to become his lodgings.
Tamar's half-brother tries to rape, er seduce, her because she's so hot.
King Solomon writes some pretty hot poetry for his Nubian-complected mistress.
David gets anointed King of Israel and has many wives and kids (two of whom are mentioned above).

[hnpcc]

The battle of Jericho (and the walls came down), the creation of the earth and all things in it (is this so much an "event"?), Noah's (bloody overcrowded) ark, Ruth being the world's best daughter-in-law and going out into the fields to pick up dropped grains of wheat, Deborah hammering the tent peg into the enemy leader's head (his name starts with S, I'm sure, but I can't for the life of me remember it exactly).

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

King David avoids adultery by sending the husband on a suicide mission.

The Egyptians discover the need for a desalinasation plant.

Goliath's sheild-bearer fucks up big-time

Locusts were missing a pair of legs.

Pi equaled 3.0

[pedanther]

I'm probably disqualified by way of having read David Plotz's Blogging the Bible, but here are five that I know I knew anyway:

1. Adam and Eve and the apple and the first buck-passing in recorded history.

2. Noah's ark. (Although Shel Silverstein's song about it probably has vanished from popular culture now, alas.)

3. The parting of the Red Sea.

4. King Solomon makes his reputation as a family court judge.

5. King Whatsisname (Nebuchnezzer? of Babylon?) sees the writing on the wall.

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

5?
Moses lead people to the promised land, dies on Mt Nebo having seen the promised land (around the river Jordan), but not reaching it himself.
David becomes King after Saul, but falls from grace when he covets anothers wife and misuses his power as King.
Solomon becomes King after David. He writes a book of love poetry to his wife.
The prophet Enoch is taken up to heaven in a fiery chariot.
The prophet Jonah is eaten by a big fish, but survives.
God picks on Job as a result of a bet, thereby proving that just because a man is lieing in the ruins of his house scraping pus out of his wounds with a potshard there is no proof that he isn't holy.
Lot is saved from the destruction of Sodom by God, thereby proving that just because a man offers up his daughters to be gang raped by a mob that is no proof that he isn't holy. His wife is turned into a pillar of salt. Afterwards, his daughters think the world has ended, so they get dad really drunk and have sex. Two days in a row (apparently Lot didn't work it out the first time).
I could go on for a while. But I'll stop now.