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[oakenguy]

You know the Bible 95%!

 

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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Huh. Not bad for an agnostic semi-pagan.

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[that.livejournal.com]

Not bad at all. I'm a preacher's kid and was confirmed as an adult in the Episcopal Church and I only got 85%.

[totnesmartin.livejournal.com]

I'm a buddhist pagan and I got 100%. Bzzzt! Does not compute!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I looked at the quiz when I first saw someone post results and it seems that the questions are pretty tailored to a particular version of the Bible (seemingly without the author being away of it), though I can't say which. If you studied a different one, who knows.

Certainly one can be quite well-versed in the oldest version and not know a lot of those answers.

(And none of those choices are the first commandment. Check the original Hebrew. :)

[that.livejournal.com]

yeah, the first commadmet is more of a declaration: I'm God, yo.

The only questions I can see that would be affected by translation/version would be the quotes, of which there are only a couple.

Me, I don't think about the Bible much these days, but I think the scholarly consensus is that, unless you read Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, the best sources are the newer ones, like the New International Version. The King james Version, despite the great peotry of its language, is just wrong about a lot of stuff. Biblical scholarship is more advanced than it was in 1611. So I hope the guy used a modern translation.