Biblical Literacy

Editor's Note: Quiz provided courtesy of HuffPost blogger Timothy Beal, author of "Biblical Literacy: The Essential Bible Stories Everyone Needs To Kn...

Knowing something about the Bible -- its historical backgrounds and development, its origin and translation, and its use in different contexts -- enables readers to make sense of biblical texts and references for themselves.

It isn't an overstatement to say that nearly every newspaper and magazine in the English-speaking world uses a word or phrase in every issue that originated in the Bible.

On the battlefield, where lives are lost, soldiers are injured, and families ripped apart, there is little question about the relevance of the world's best-selling book, the Bible.

Social networking has proven to be a valuable conduit for reaching millennials with the Word of God. Interspersed with the latest tweets from a favorite actor or comedian come portions of Scripture in a Twitter feed.