Does anyone have a list of memory images for all the books of the Bible? I was starting to work on my own, but I was hoping to see what others have to assist me. My ultimate goal is to memorize scripture versus from the Bible, but I need an image for each book to start.
Which list are you working from?
@Drapeshape I am working out a system for Bible book palaces and put my first draft of the books on my github site in the 7711 Bible memorization folder.
Modern protestant version, like in the ‘King James’ Bible.
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That is very helpful, thank you. 
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@Drapeshape, I updated my spreadsheet with my rough narrative logic for the palace traversals that use more than one background (locus) if they had a lot of chapters. Let me know if you have any questions about that. The document is now called Scripture Design and has the verses that I am memorizing. It still needs work and you can check in to see the version number for updates.
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Thank you again, this is extremely helpful!
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Been working on something similar here.
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@FluffyRibbit, nice work. I especially liked the acronyms.
I’m sorry I didn’t keep my doc posted on mnemonics for the Bible. I took it down to completely revise it so that it targeted the themes and scripture context better. I took off on vacation three weeks ago and have a couple of major tasks now to complete before I get back to that. I hope to see your progress in the future!
Doug
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Hey, I’m currently working on getting the themes for each chapter here. Maybe it’s helpful?
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@FluffyRibbit, Great work! I’ll look at it more when I have more time.
Since you mentioned Python (I think I remember), have you come up with any unit tests that can help you determine if your system is designed well? I took about a year before I decided to reengineer my system when my tests weren’t passing as well as I thought they should. My definition of success was based around scripture retention.
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In order to do that, I’d have to:
Somehow measure retention
Somehow feed it back it into my program
Then fail the test when my measures weren’t high enough
And in order for that to be useful, I’d have to have some sort of plan for when they failed. I’m sort of curious how any of that is even possible. Right now, my application of programming is pretty trivial, populating spreadsheets with summaries, images based on bespoke mnemonics, and a bit of styling; taking in spreadsheets and outputting anki decks. I had ideas for more extensive systems, where I’d procedurally generate 3D memory palaces, but I’ve made very little progress on that so far.
@FluffyRibbit, yes that’s food for thought. I had to work with the system for awhile before I had a baseline of how often I needed to review to keep the scripture in memory. I hit a plateau of about 110 scriptures. Then I’d go through several weeks of not reviewing and see how much decayed. Then I’d review the system and tweak it and begin again.
Minds aren’t like computers and I had ghosts of the previous mnemonic images that hung around but I made them a part of the new images. I don’t recommend that. My standard was how fast I could recall the images when I heard the scripture in a sermon and how many other related scriptures I could retrieve.
I can’t wait to get back to memorization but it’s likely to be some months before I can. Let me hear of your progress both in design and your implementation and testing. Make sure to set goals. My first system just provided visual images for random scriptures with substitute words for book names. It was too difficult.
My next system was more like a method of loci as multiple scriptures in the same chapter started clumping together in the visual image. Then after an overhaul, I kept the book names and book cardinal order, and added NT chapter number images that were relevant to the other images. I had to pause after adding NIV chapter themes and just testing it out on Matthew. The visual images are strong now.
Generating a 3D palace would have put the cart before the horse for me. I found it better to do a bottom-up design and let the data describe the palace. Even then, I programmed my review flash cards in Word via mailmerge and stored the data in Excel in several different formats, but scrapped that as well opting for a complete Word document that is easier to revise by changing the text.
I know that a personalized system is a better choice than using another person’s system. But if you are interested, I can share my unfinished doc with you. I’ve tried to keep it generic. And I’m always open to suggestions. DM me with your email if you want to have it. God bless you for putting the effort in to commit scripture to memory!
Doug
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Here’s one I cooked up as an example for a student a while ago.
A giant Zipper singing with Shania Twain for the Book of Zephaniah.
Although I’m sure Shania would be rightly annoyed by such a poor rendition, the association did the trick.
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Nevermind Shania getting annoyed, I imagine ol’ Zeph rolled over in his tomb a few times. But hey, whatever works for you is good.
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This is why the ancient books caution against giving too many examples. The vast majority will make zero sense to others.
The skill is learning to assign your own, especially in circumstances where reference isn’t an option.
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