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    Now You Know The Bible
    Now You Know The Bible
    Now You Know The Bible
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    Now You Know The Bible

    By Doug Lennox

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    The Bible has had a profound impact on the world. Now Doug Lennox, the vicar of Q&A, serves up an entertaining but informative slice of biblical lore, literature, and history. Discover the top four box office successes for biblical-themed movies in North America, find out what The Matrix and Moby-Dick have in common with the Bible, and learn quirky insights into many of the Good Books major and minor cast of characters and fabled events. Youll eat, drink, and be merry with this collection of minutiae showcasing highlights of the bestselling book of all time!

    • Who is the only left-handed person mentioned in the Bible?
    • Who asked Jesus Christ to perform his first recorded miracle?
    • How many passages has God said to have written in the Bible?
    • Who was taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire?
    • What caused Moses to break the tablets of the Ten Commandments?
    • How many versions of the Bible are there?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateNov 1, 2010
    ISBN9781459718715
    Now You Know The Bible
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    Doug Lennox

    Doug Lennox was an internationally acclaimed broadcaster, a veteran character actor, a commercial voice artist, and a bestselling author. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television features, including X-Men, Police Academy, Lonesome Dove, and Against the Ropes, and shared screen time with Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Burt Reynolds, Holly Hunter, Eric McCormack, Gary Oldman, and a myriad of others.

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      THE OLD TESTAMENT

      the beginning: Genesis

      What was the order in which God created the elements of the earth?

      There are two creation accounts in the Bible — in Genesis 1 and 2, and the order is different in each account.

      TEN LONGEST NAMES IN THE BIBLE

      Mahershalalhashbaz, making speed to the spoil; he hastens to the prey (Isaiah 8:1–3)

      Chushanrishathaim, blackness of iniquities (Judges 3:8–10)

      Bashanhavothjair, the towns of Jair (Deuteronomy 3:14)

      Chepharhaammonai, town of Benjamin (Joshua 18:24)

      Kibrothhattaavah, the graves of lust (Numbers 11:34; Deuteronomy 9:22)

      Selahammahlekoth, rock of divisions (I Samuel 23:28)

      Abelbethmaachah, mourning to the House of Maachah (I Kings 15:20; II Kings 15:29)

      Almondiblathaim, hidden in a cluster of fig trees (Numbers 33:46–47)

      Apharsathchites, dividing or rending (Ezra 4:9)

      Helkathhazzurim, the field of strong men, or of rocks (II Samuel 2:16)

      And the runners up:

      RamathaimZophim, the two watch-towers (1Samuel 1:1)

      Zaphnathpaaneah, one who discovers hidden things (Genesis 41:45)

      In Chapter 1, God creates the earth, then the plants, and then the animals, rather as if he's getting the earth ready for Adam and Eve, who comes last. In Chapter 2, God creates Adam and then plants a garden watered by rivers for Adam's use. Then come the animals and birds, and Adam is given the task of naming them. It is only when Adam still lacks a companion that God creates woman out of Adam's rib.

      Some Biblical scholars think that this is a result of two different accounts being later combined by a compiler. Others feel that the two accounts are simply included to underline the importance of the event by the use of a literary device: first comes the big picture, then the detail.

      What does the name Adam mean?

      Adam means man in Hebrew. Interestingly, however, the name is a bit of a play on words. In Chapter 2 of Genesis, man is created out of the dust of the ground. In Hebrew the word for ground is adamah.

      What does the name Eve mean?

      Adam first names his companion Woman, because she was taken out of Man. However, after God announces that her punishment for her role in the Fall is, among other things, to bear children and to suffer while doing so, Adam renames her. He calls her Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

      How did God create a woman out of Adam's rib and do men have fewer ribs?

      Men don't have fewer ribs, though this has been suggested at times by the very literal. In fact, the creation account uses a Hebrew word that means side rather than rib. A more widespread interpretation is that the rib incident simply underlines that man and woman are two halves of a whole, flesh of one flesh. In the creation account in Chapter 1, man and woman exist together from the first.

      Adam's Rib

      The movie Adam's Rib, released in 1949 and directed by George Cukor, was a vehicle for Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy (in private life a couple equally matched in strength of character). Husband-and-wife lawyers, they end up battling on opposite sides in the trial of a wronged wife accused of taking a poorly aimed shot at her philandering husband. The battle of the sexes in the courtroom eventually spills over into the private lives of the married lawyers and comes close to expelling them from their heretofore happy marriage. The snake in this case is a predatory neighbour with an eye on Hepburn's character. Spencer Tracy, by the way, plays Adam Bonner. Get it?

      How does Adam's rib relate to relations between the sexes?

      Some people have interpreted the fact that Eve was created from Adam's rib to indicate that God intends woman to be subservient to man. Therefore, Adam's rib has often been invoked in the battle of the sexes.

      Why was the fruit that Adam and Eve ate an apple?

      The fruit that Adam and Eve ate is never identified. It is simply the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and was forbidden to them by God's order. However, traditionally the fruit has been identified as an apple, and it's portrayed as an apple in songs, stories, and paintings. This idea was perhaps propagated by the fact that the Latin for evil and apple is the same word, differentiated only by accent.

      Where did the term Adam's apple come from?

      It was said that the forbidden fruit stuck in Adam's throat. Since the identification of the forbidden fruit with an apple has been so established, that lump in the male throat became known as an Adam's

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