# Poll: Five Least Important Books Of The Bible

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-five-least-important-books-of-the-bible/489853>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 18, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-five-least-important-books-of-the-bible/489853 "2009-03-18T05:00:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-five-least-important-books-of-the-bible/489853/1 "2009-03-18T05:00:48Z")

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Since we have a [poll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=510611) about the 5 most important books of the Bible, let’s have a poll about about the 5 least important.

1. Leviticus
2. I Timothy
3. II Timothy
4. Titus
5. Song of Solomon

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-five-least-important-books-of-the-bible/489853/2 "2009-03-18T05:49:14Z")

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All the NT. 🙂

As for the real Bible, I just have one candidate: Malachi, where my haftorah portion came from. so short that I got to sing most of it in Hebrew. At the very end also. I know Christians think this is some premonition of Jesus, but I didn’t see no Jesus in the Hebrew. As far as I can tell, totally pointless. But short.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-five-least-important-books-of-the-bible/489853/3 "2009-03-18T06:08:14Z")

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Psalm, Song of Solomon, and…what are the NT books where pretty much the same story is told by different people? We only really need one version.

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-five-least-important-books-of-the-bible/489853/4 "2009-03-18T09:25:41Z")

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Song of Solomon is awesome poetry… and often quite erotic, too. Taken together with Ecclesiastes, it’s also part of a fascinating portrait of a bipolar mind.

Myself, I’d drop Chronicles A and B. Nothing there that we haven’t seen before, and better.

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-five-least-important-books-of-the-bible/489853/5 "2009-03-18T10:16:37Z")

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> [@Voyager](#):
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> All the NT. 🙂

I would amend that to include:

1. All the New Testament
2. All the Old Testament