I do not know the Bible.

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Started to read it in my 20s cuz it seemed like a student of literature should know it, but got bogged down in the begats.  Didn't occur to me until I'd long since given up that I coulda just skipped over those, nor, more helpfully, that I didn't have to memorize the full cast of characters and their lifespans to read further.

Today, presented with a trivia question involving the names of books of the Bible, I made a list of my guesses at Bible book names, and came up with only 11.  And I was confused about Songs.  Seems it's "Song of Solomon" for Protestants; "שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים" [Šîr Hašîrîm], in the Hebrew original; "Song of Songs" for Catholics and Orthodoxxers; and "Canticles" in the, like, religio-colloquial, or somethin' like that.  How many Bible books can you name?  

my list

Genesis

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Psalms

Songs?  Song of Songs?

Revelations

Deuteronomy

First Corinthians

Second Corinthians?

Job?

 
  Oh, and there's no -s on Revelation. Sure seems like there oughta be, on accounta it's rumored to be just chock-fulla revelations, but what do I know? I left off somewhere around And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared.

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as a kid I loved the word "deuteronomy"

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I was raised very Catholic: Catholic grade school. Mandatory church every Sunday until I moved out of my parents' house. My uncle is a bishop. It's in my blood.

Anyway, I realized as a student of literature in college that I don't know the Bible either. Like, at all. My brain has actively rejected this information. That said, I can name ten. I know the first five, and the four gospel guys, and... Corinthians. One of them, at least. Everything on your list looks familiar, but I couldn't have come up with it myself.