If you could memorize

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John7 said:
  1. English Bible-CE
  2. Greek NT & LXX
  3. Hebrew OT
    whew, these 3 would be hard enough.
    ok maybe one more,
  4. CCC
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I had also considered the Bible in other languages, especially the Greek Septuagint and Greek NT, with all the variant readings!!
 
I about forgot about the code of cannon law. I would probably start mixing its contents with one of the catechisms. LOL.
 
eric_sammons said:
I have been studying the Bible and early church history for over 20 years, and I’m well aware of the various apocryphal works such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Revelation of Peter, etc. and read just about all of them. Is that all you are referring to? Because most of them are really not anything special. Derivative at best, and most were written centuries after the time of Christ.

And frankly, there is no such thing as “banned books of the Bible.” The Church’s decision on what writings would be included in the canon is what defined the “Bible”. Thus, a book that was not included was never part of the Bible and cannot be called a “banned book of the Bible.” Don’t tell me you actually believed that The Da Vinci Code was a work of history, did you? 🙂
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I’ve never read The Da Vinci Code (I am well-aware it is fiction, either way), but I happen to like the Apocryphal works. I look forward to learning more about them, whether they are valid or not. Personally, I think a precious few fit, but I respect the Church’s decision in not including them.

(The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is my favorite.)
 
  1. The Bible
  2. Summa theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas
  3. The “Organon” of Aristotle (the Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, and Sophistical Refutations)
  4. The Republic of Plato
 
COPLAND_3 said:
Just imagine, let’s pretend that you could memorize a selection of religious writings word for word, what would they be? You are limited to 4.
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The Bible, Canon Law, and the Catechism are pretty much a given anyways, so:

1.) All of the extra-Biblical Judaeo-Christian books, aka Apocryphal writings* (also preferably in the original tongues)
2.) The missals and breviaries of various liturgical rites
3.) All 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth (I don’t own them, but I’d like to)*1
4.) Mahayana Buddhist sutras (I have a bit of a professional interest in Mahayana Buddhism, being in a country where there are lots of it and all).
  • Including the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi library, and others, such as the religious papyri found in Oxyrhynchus.
    *1 Yes, I know they’re not technically religious writings, but still…😉
 
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