Thursday, February 21, 2013

Biblical Mnemonics

So, we all know the five books of the Pentateuch (Torah) as:
General Electric Lights Never Dim (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)

(What do you mean, you never heard of it?!)

And now Sr. Maria Louise, CBS 100 student, just sent me a wonderful mnemonic for the 12 sons of Jacob: Rousing songs lead Jewish zealots in dance. God awards new jelly beans.

(Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin) Fantastic Sr. Maria!

And do you know the poem to help you remember the Pauline corpus?

Rom - Cor - Cor
Gal - Eph - Phi (fee)
Col - Thess - Thess
Tim - Tim - Ti (tee)
Phi - He (hee)

(Romans - 1 Corinthians - 2 Corinthians
Galations - Ephesians - Phillipians
Colossians - 1 Thessalonians - 2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy - 2 Timothy - Titus
Hebrews - Philemon)

Yeah, we know they're probably not all written by Paul. But we do call them the "Pauline corpus" because they all (well, Hebrews maybe not so much) have some affiliation with St. Paul.