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Do you know your biblical references?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 893592.stm

From Shakespeare to Steinbeck, literary greats have borrowed heavily from the Bible. Now, Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has raised concerns that students of English literature are struggling because they don't understand Biblical references. Is he right to worry? Test your knowledge with this quiz from the Bible Society.

one for mf

i got 2/10

one was about moby dick and i guessed the other

i'm going to burn in hell, aren't i?

5 out of 10, not bad considering.

7 out of 10, but in all fairness I took wild guesses on 6 of those!

Bet Fiendy gets 10.

Five. And a Catholic Boy. Suitably chastened.

Shakespeare helped with writing the KJV.

And I only got 6

Quiff Boy wrote:i got 2/10

one was about moby dick and i guessed the other

i'm going to burn in hell, aren't i?

I got 2/10 as well, guess the same goes for me then.

Nic wrote:

Quiff Boy wrote:i got 2/10

one was about moby dick and i guessed the other

i'm going to burn in hell, aren't i?

I got 2/10 as well, guess the same goes for me then.

i'm an agnostic from a heathen, lapsed proddie background, so it was never going to be my strongest subject

Blimey! I got 8 out of 10, and I'm as agnostic/atheist as they come!

malifex wrote:Blimey! I got 8 out of 10, and I'm as agnostic/atheist as they come!

maybe you're just well read?

markfiend wrote:Shakespeare helped with writing the KJV.

And I only got 6

6 for me too.

That said, I'm guessing there will be more orgies, better bands & stronger ale in Hell......Who wants to play the harp all day in heaven anyway?

Haha, two. That's rubbish. I should have gotten three even if I guessed them all.

In fairness the only two I got are the last two, because they've both been used extensively in comic books... I am such a philistine.

this pretty much sums me up, i guess:

http://arts.cuhk.edu.hk/humftp/E-text/R ... nostic.htm

personally I wouldn't trust the bbc to give me the right date in a calender factory - that said

5/10

1/10.
Should have paid more attention in R.E. & not spent the time taking the p!ss out of the teacher's weird thumbs.

4/10

mmm.. pas mal...

8/10.

And I know nothing about the bible! I guessed every single one!

(well, I guessed 7 right, kinda guessed the Moby Dick one from Quiffy's post...)

I'm going to hell anyway.

What religious indoctrination I received was Baptist <<shudder>> and they apparently considered the Old Testament inappropriate for children

I have long since become a devout heathen, and gotten well rid of all that shite, so the main things that got me 5/10 were familiarity with American literature (that was sort of underhanded of them, IMNSHO) and the fact that, having been a belly dancer myself, I couldn't help but know about Salome

6/10? God (:lol:) knows where that came from!

Er, 10/10. But my Dad was a minister.

7anthea7 wrote:they apparently considered the Old Testament inappropriate for children

Old Testament: Parental Guidance -- Explicit Content!
(To be fair, there is quite a lot of nasty in the OT.)

4/10
not bad for someone from other culture circle and who don't believe. but these four were easy.

markfiend wrote:

7anthea7 wrote:they apparently considered the Old Testament inappropriate for children

Old Testament: Parental Guidance -- Explicit Content!
(To be fair, there is quite a lot of nasty in the OT.)

It's my favorite

The lack of Biblical literacy in modern society makes it difficult to teach philosophy, though. Just last night I was teaching Locke's Second Treatise, and we got to paragraph 21 (in chapter III: "Of the State of War"), where Locke references Judges 11.27 (Judges may be my favorite book of the Bible, actually), writing that Jephtha was forced to make an "appeal to Heaven" between Israel and the Ammonites, and that "where there is no Judge on Earth, the Appeal lies to God in Heaven."

So, I asked the class what it meant. One student said it meant we should be nice to each other, because that's what God wants. Another said that we shouldn't judge each other, because only God can judge. An black woman, in the back, in her 50's, just smiled and shook her head at this--it turned out that of a class of almost 40 students, the only one who was familiar with the story was the older black woman (and she had the wrong details in mind, i.e., the vow sworn by Jephtha that inadvertently leads him to sacrifice his own daughter). Locke's point was simple: to say that God will judge between Israel and the Ammonites was simply to say that where there is no judge on earth, force resolves the issue. How will Jephtha know if God is on his side? Through victory. In other words, Jephtha can't rely on God in the state of nature, he must rely on force of arms.

Ugh. no one here cares about that

sultan2075 wrote:Ugh. no one here cares about that

Don't be so sure

I'm so nerdy.