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Josh at work Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is also a graduate student at the University of Kansas, completing a doctorate in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not modeling species distributions or battling creationists, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.

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Bible Nerd

Category: Chatter
Posted on: February 3, 2007 1:26 AM, by Josh Rosenau

Via Afarensis.

You know the Bible 90%!
 

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

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1

96 %. Not bad for an atheist.

Posted by: Elf Eye | February 3, 2007 6:48 AM

2

100%.

The more you know...

Posted by: The Ridger | February 3, 2007 11:34 AM

3

69%, I must be good at guessing.

Posted by: Eric Juve | February 3, 2007 2:47 PM

4

100% here.

I did have a problem with one of the questions, though.

40. How many days and nights was the great flood?
  • 7
  • 12
  • 40
  • 77

According to Genesis 7:17, the flood lasted 40 days.

And the flood was forty days upon the earth.

However, Genesis 7:24 and 8:3 both say the water did not recede for 150 days.

If only I were a Biblical literalist, I'm sure I would have a response to this apparent discrepancy. Alas, when I tried to look it up I found several different interpretations.

Posted by: Jeremy Mohn | February 3, 2007 6:57 PM

5

hmm . . . I got 92% despite having guessed at many of the answers. I don't think this is on the up-and-up. Are the obvious questions being scored more highly than the obscure ones? I mean, anyone who knows the Bible knows Jonah was swallowed by the whale, but who but a biblical scholar remembers the order of the books in the OT? (and the Ridger, Elf Eye, and Jeremy of course.)

Posted by: Rugosa | February 3, 2007 7:48 PM

6

"...who but a biblical scholar remembers the order of the books in the OT?"

Are you talking about this question?

22. Which book follows Ezra?
  • Exodus
  • Hebrews
  • Jude
  • Nehemiah

I figured out that one by process of elimination. Exodus is part of the Pentateuch (first 5 books of OT). Jude and Hebrews are in the NT.

Nehemiah was the only choice left.

Posted by: Jeremy Mohn | February 3, 2007 8:36 PM

7

90% for me. But I treated it as an open-book test.

Posted by: Liz | February 4, 2007 11:06 AM

8

100%, but I'm not proud of it. It was a dumb quiz.

Posted by: farb | February 5, 2007 6:03 PM

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