Books Of The Bible
Both Jews and early church fathers agreed on 39 divinely inspired books as comprising the Old Testament canon of Scripture. (400 A.D.), however, included the books of the Apocrypha. A large portion of the Apocrypha was officially recognized by the as part of the biblical canon at the Council of Trent in A.D. Today, Greek, and Russian Orthodox churches also accept these books as divinely inspired by God. The word Apocrypha means 'hidden.' The books of the Apocrypha are not considered authoritative in and Protestant Christian churches.
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Books of the Bible. The Old Testament (also known as the Jewish Tanakh) is the first 39 books in most Christian Bibles. The name stands for the original promise with God (to the descendants of Abraham in particular) prior to the coming of Jesus Christ in the New Testament (or the new promise). Books of the King James Bible (KJV) including the New Testament and Old Testament from the King James Bible Online.
The 39 books of the Old Testament were written over a period of approximately 1,000 years, beginning with (around 1450 B.C.) until the time when the Jewish people returned to Judah from exile (538-400 B.C.) during the. The English Bible follows the order of the Greek translation of the Old Testament (the Septuagint) and thus differs in order from the Hebrew Bible. For the sake of this study, we will consider the divisions of Greek and English Bibles only. Many English Bible readers may not realize that the books are ordered and grouped according to style or type of writing, and not chronologically.
Below is the Protestant canon of the Bible (New Revised Standard Version). The Roman Catholic canon also includes the Deuterocanonical books as part of the Old Testament (these are considered apocryphal by most Protestants).