{"id":667,"date":"2008-07-02T17:17:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T23:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2008\/07\/02\/popular-stories-in-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2008-07-02T17:17:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T23:17:25","slug":"popular-stories-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/popular-stories-in-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Stories in the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poll by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3559888,00.html\">Ynetnews<\/a> found the following were the most popular stories in the Bible.&nbsp; It doesn&#8217;t say whether participants were allowed to choose stories from the <em>whole<\/em> (OT) Bible or not, but you can see that all are from the Pentateuch\/Torah, 6 of them from Genesis.<\/p>\n<p>1. Creation of the world (Genesis 1) \u2013 21%  <\/p>\n<p>2. Joseph and his brothers (Genesis 36-50) \u2013 20%  <\/p>\n<p>3. Exodus from Egypt (Exodus 14-16) \u2013 13%  <\/p>\n<p>4. Binding of Isaac \u2013 (Genesis 22) \u2013 10%  <\/p>\n<p>5. Giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai (Exodus 18-20) \u2013 10%  <\/p>\n<p>6. Noah&#8217;s Ark and the Great Flood (Genesis 6-9) \u2013 7%  <\/p>\n<p>7. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2-3) \u2013 7%  <\/p>\n<p>8. The 12 spies sent to explore Canaan (Numbers 13) \u2013 6%  <\/p>\n<p>9. Tower of Babel (Genesis 11) \u2013 4%  <\/p>\n<p>10. Sin of the Golden Calf (Exodus 32) \u2013 2%  <\/p>\n<p>If you were limited to these 10, what would your favorite story be?&nbsp; I have to say that my opinion would probably be different this year than last, given my new(er) appreciation for literary aspects.&nbsp; It&#8217;s interesting too what important stories are omitted from this list.&nbsp; There is nothing related to the Abrahamic covenant or Passover, both critical in salvation-history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poll by Ynetnews found the following were the most popular stories in the Bible.&nbsp; It doesn&#8217;t say whether participants were allowed to choose stories from the whole (OT) Bible or not, but you can see that all are from the Pentateuch\/Torah, 6 of them from Genesis. 1. Creation of the world (Genesis 1) \u2013\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/popular-stories-in-the-bible\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-in-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}