My own little memorization devices.

Just took a gander at Dylan's new blog site, and I like that he described for everyone his means of memorizing the seven stages of the bible. So I figured I'd share some of my strategies as well. I've always been big on mneumonic devices, and I used a few of them for this class.

For the seven biblical divisions, I made up A little story. Kind of.
We Create Revolution. Law is based on Wisdom, not Prophecy, and the Gospels lead to an Apocalypse.

The books of the actual books of the bible I did in much the same way really. Well, some significant differences. A nonsense word, followed by an esoteric little sentence.
GELND for the Pentatuch, which is close enough to Geld that I don't forget it.
Then: JJ are SS. Because I once had a run in with a neonazi named JJ, for Joshua, Judges, Ruth and the two Samuels.
Then comes two kings and their choronicles. Then, just straight repetition to memorize Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. Then, Job peepees. For Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon.
Then, I stopped memorizing because we weren't asked to name any of them on the second quiz.

For Frye's four divisions, a little phrase, "Decon? Ick." As in, don't eat the rat poison, it ain't good. Descriptive, Conceptual, Ideological, Kerygmatic.

Little tricks go a long way as far as memory is concerned. Thing about Dr. Sexson is, I've never taken an exam that he hasn't thrown at least one question I hadn't a clue on. Makes for a much more interesting study experience trying to guess those curveballs.