When you are really intimately familiar with a story, you start to learn the little details of it. It just happens. Just like when you are really close to a person, you don't necessarily sit down and interrogate him about little details about his life, but you find them out - like his birthday, and his mother's maiden name, and so forth; and you don't consider these burdensome details, but interesting because you care about the person.
Some of you have to have watched Star Wars as many times as I have. There was a time when I could recite most of the lines along with the movies. Maybe the first time you watched it you focused on the broader features and the identities of the main characters, but maybe after the third time you watched the movies you would start remembering details like place names and all the minor characters, and after the seventh time you would take some pleasure in being able to answer when someone asks you what Boba Fett's father's name is, or what "TIE" stands for, or about the Wilhelm Scream, or what other actors were considered for the role of Han Solo. You might even exult a bit in knowing neat things like that.
It's kind of embarrassing how few of these sorts of details I know about the Bible. Not that someday your salvation is going to depend on knowing the name that Pharaoh gave to Joseph, or how old Isaac was when he died, or which number in the series of the woes of Revelation the locusts are, but wouldn't it be neat (not to mention fitting and right) to have the same or better quality of detail-knowledge about the Scriptures as about books and movies I like because they entertain me?
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