![]() ![]() To begin your amazing journey of studying the Bible for yourself, click here. Malachi Divisions of the Books of the New Testament Divisions of the Books Of The Old TestamentĪlthough the Jewish "Old Testament" contains the same books as the Christian Old Testament, they are placed in a different order. The New Testament has 27 books which is also divided in 4 categories: The Gospels, The Historical Book, The Letters, and The Book of Vision. In the Old Testament, all of the books of the Law are grouped together the first 5 books, from Genesis to Deuteronomy. In their simplest form, the twenty-four books of the Jewish Bible the Tanach present a history of the first 3500 years from creation until the building of the second Temple in Jerusalem.The books also relate the history of the Jewish nation from its earliest stage, through the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai, and until the end of the first commonwealth. These Books are divided into 4 general catagories: Books of Law called the Pentateuch or Torah, the Historical Books, the Poetic Books, and the Prophetic Books. The first part of the Bible is the Old Testament which consists of 39 books. The Bible is composed of 66 books written over a period of about 1800 years by 40 different people. The Old Testament is the first section of the two-part Christian biblical canon the second section is the New Testament.The Old Testament includes the books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) or protocanon, and in various Christian denominations also includes deuterocanonical books. The English word came from the Old French, changing its ending making the word Bible. The Latin picked up the word, using the same spelling and it was then transliterated into French maintaining the Greek spelling. To date the events of the OT serves both to clarify their sequence in Biblical history and to emphasize their reality in time and space. The plural form of "biblos" is "biblia" which word the Christians by the second century A.D. ![]() ![]() It is originally from the Greek word “biblos” which was the name assigned to the outer coat of a papyrus reed in Egypt during the eleventh century B.C. Before we look at the books of the Bible, let's see where the word “Bible” comes from. ![]()
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