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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Raised a German Lutheran and we didn't study the bible so much as we were told in Saturday Catechism class about what the books were about and were expected to memorize the books names in order, old and new testament, as a test before Confirmation. I can get through first and second Deuteronomy and go blank nowadays. We were taught it as a kind of history and we knew what the main characters and the lesser characters did and were taught that the new testament kind of had more weight than the old. Other Protestant faiths study the Bible in a different way memorizing verses and literally applying them.
I was a Catholic convert at age 18 and really was surprised to find back then that the Catholic Church didn't study the Bible, as much as many Protestants I knew did, and Catholics are not taught to interpret the bible literally which agreed what I was taught as a child in Sunday School and in Catechism Class.
I get more Jeopardy questions on the Bible right than my "cradle Catholic" husband. But I am far from a scholar. To me it takes the wisdom of Solomon to figure it out.
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I love the way Jews celebrate the Bible. Each synagogue has a scroll with the Torah..first 5 books..that is taken from its elaborate cabinet and paraded around the room on certain days, where congregants reverently touch it with their book, or kiss a scarf and touch the Torah with it.
The Torah has only one Deuteronomy... ;-)