Suggest the most mediocre story.

jay_emm

I was looking at the children's bible books in Waterstones* and on the way home was wondering what was the story they chose last.
Obviously there's an awful lot that goes into such a thing (for instance you could split and merge).

But if you were to take a random guess, what would be the story that you think you'd include in a select list but is borderline

By default let's say it's a 52 story bible for ten year olds.
You can change that if you think it would be more interesting (do be clear).
But please vaguely sticking to the stories we all like, but not that much region. Skim over the extremes (we either will agree boringly or disagree messily).

*Other bookshops are available (but not nearby).

Lamb Chopped

I've been involved in similar projects, and in my experience, a 52-story collection starts with around 100 suggestions, and we then establish criteria for what we're looking for in a story. Using those, we start working from both ends--quickly grabbing the obvious ones (such as Jesus' birth, death, and resurrection) and drop all the obvious minors (for example, that story where Jael hammers a tent peg through his head!) . When you get close to the desired total, you start arguing about the ones that remain--not that they all won't work, but the question is which will work better for the end you have in mind.

So if you ask what was least chosen, in reality it was likely to be some unproblematic story that just made the cut because it was a tiny bit stronger than the competition.

Which isn't super interesting, really...

I get the sense that you're looking for much more interesting stories for your thread--ones that barely got accepted because they were problematic in some way. If that's what you want, I'd vote for Samson and Delilah.

jay_emm

I was thinking about the stories that don't so much get the spotlight, getting a brief spot in the sun.
And staying relatively low controversy is a bonus (there isn't going to be a right answer, for all the reasons you give).

At the time of composition I'd also got Hagar and the Well in my head. Thinking it interesting that both Abraham's sons get rescued from him trying to do the right thing, and then wondering if it would make the cut.

Fwiw my children's bible I'm pretty sure had Jaal, but it also had 365 stories.

Samson& Delilah probably is in that region (possibly actually struggling for top 100 if you actually counted).
And the kernal is violent but not crazily so. The sort where you are discussing age (and again it depends on how you tell it).

TurquoiseTastic

Daniel and the vegetables (Daniel 1)

I had an interesting experience a few years ago when I gave a short talk based on Daniel and the vegetables and then the Headmaster (who was in his 60s and had an English literature background) said he'd never heard that story before. I was shocked and horrified but possibly my Ulster Protestant roots were giving me unrealistic expectations of the pagan English...

HarryCH

Technically "mediocre" means "of middle quality", and thus one cannot be more or less mediocre.

Nick Tamen

I’ll confess I still can’t quite figure out what the OP is asking.

And aren’t we supposed to have a specific text to discuss and interpret in Kerygmania?

Gramps49

Was wondering if the OP should have been on another message board myself, since we are not asked to discuss a bible passage.

jay_emm

Fair challenge, though if it were anyone else, please give us a chance to act.

I will point out you are asked to suggest bible passages. And I was hoping it would lead to discussing something. But I appreciate that is not quite the same thing.

I'll see if another board wants it, and what other opinions are.

Jay_emm keryg host

[There is already a Styx thread about closed threads]