Book of the Bible, a Tier List

[Anonymous No.17379521]

Hello, based retard here. This is my inexhaustive list of Bible books, organized into letter tiers. Some succeed as "literature" and others more as "philosophy" or instructive history but I will not distinguish.

S+ unfathomably plenum'd:
Genesis
John
Revelation

A:
Psalms
Mark
Luke
Exodus
Joshua
I Kings
Daniel
Proverbs

B:
Exodus
Judges
II Kings
Job
Song of Solomon
Jonah
Ezekiel


C:
Ecclesiastes
III John
Matthew
Numbers
Hebrews
Isaiah
I Chronicles
Malachi
Romans

D:
II Chronicles
Zephaniah
Obadiah
many garbage epistles

Paul was gay, idc

[Anonymous No.17379529]

Job > Ecclesiastes > Revelation > Psalms >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everything else

[Anonymous No.17379541]

Friendly reminder that Judith is not canon and never has been, no matter what Catholics say.

[Anonymous No.17379546]

>>17379529
>Job
why do non christians (I'm assuming) jizz over job so hard? overall it's a clumsy attempt to deal with the problem of evil and most of it is taken up by circular and kind of poorly reasoned speeches, commonly misinterpreted at a few important points.
the leviathan and behemoth are badass though and its good exposition of satan

[Anonymous No.17379560]

I put exodus in twice, fuck. The latter half is less based than the first, it's where the pentateuch goes from being top notch reading of primordial good shit to jews being faggots over and over and over again (which is still worth reading)

[Anonymous No.17379582]

>>17379546
>badass

[Anonymous No.17379691]

Books that haven't been laid out in the temple are not part of scripture.
Beware of the false prophets.

[Anonymous No.17379697]

What is the best version of the bible to read again?

[Anonymous No.17380328]

Ecclesiastes is A tier at least.

[Anonymous No.17380467]

>>17379521
>Ecclesiastes
>C
>Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia’s Dismal Swamp, nor Rome’s accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the millions of miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon. The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true—not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. “All is vanity.” ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon’s wisdom yet. But he who dodges hospitals and jails, and walks fast crossing graveyards, and would rather talk of operas than hell; calls Cowper, Young, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils all of sick men; and throughout a care-free lifetime swears by Rabelais as passing wise, and therefore jolly;—not that man is fitted to sit down on tomb-stones, and break the green damp mould with unfathomably wondrous Solomon.
—Herman Melville

[Anonymous No.17380577]

>>17379546
Job is important because it reminds us that life isn't fair and that bad things happen to good people. Just because you are a Christian you can't expect everything to be perfect.

[Anonymous No.17381074]

>>17380467
wow, had no idea that guy was such a pleb.
i'm kidding i'm a huge retard. thanks for inspiring a re-read
>>17380577
good, right, and I was just saying that I don't get why it's considered a literary masterpiece

[Anonymous No.17381104]

>>17379521
>New Testament shit in high tiers
>Daniel in A tier
>no Samuel
>no Lamentations
>Ecclesiastes in C tier
>Proverbs in A tier
>fucking Job in B tier

[Anonymous No.17381115]

>>17379546
>why do non christians (I'm assuming) jizz over job so hard?
Because it is the greatest work of literature from the ancient world.
>overall it's a clumsy attempt to deal with the problem of evil
Read it again.
>most of it is taken up by circular and kind of poorly reasoned speeches
An intentional dialectic on the part of the poet. Read it again.

[Anonymous No.17381118]

>>17379697
A lot of people will tell you KJV.
They are wrong.
If you're so rock hard over tradition go with NKJV, but you're still off the mark.
Something like NASB ought to start you off right.

[Anonymous No.17381124]

>>17381074
>I was just saying that I don't get why it's considered a literary masterpiece
>>/lit/thread/S17321367

[Anonymous No.17381147]

>>17379521
what a beautiful kotty