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

[saltmarsh-again.livejournal.com]

Can we include the Apocrypha? /smartarse

Balaam's ass gets stubborn in teh face of an angel
Jonah gets swallowed by a whale
Elijah smites the prophets of Baal with lightning
Jacob wrestles an angel and dislocates his hip in the process
Joseph launches a fabulously successful musical about his troubled family life.

[purplepooka.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that at least the Joseph one is canonical (except for the musical part). Was pretty sure Jonah was in the approved version, too. They certainly made us draw the whale a lot at Hebrew school.

[saltmarsh-again.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was being strictly canonical there in my list. Otherwise it'd be 'Judith cuts off Holofernes' head' and stuff. :D

[purplepooka.livejournal.com]

Ah, sorry, I thought you were aiming for apocryphal - which shows how much I know for doubting the other incidents ;-)

[saltmarsh-again.livejournal.com]

*handwaves biblical canonicity of fabulously successful musical*

XD