Charts Showing the Organization of the English Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible

[00:00:01] Charts showing the Organization of the English Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible Written by Bart Ehrman Read by Ken Teutsch the Hebrew Bible Old Testament is a big book. [00:00:17] Well, okay, a big collection of books. In my previous post I discussed its basic contents, organization and structure, both as found in English translations, which 99% of the Bible readers you know use, and in the original Hebrew itself. [00:00:34] In this post I will provide two charts to clarify the matter. After that, I will give some additional lists that show how different Christian denominations actually have more extended canons of the Old Testament because they accept works that are called the Apocrypha by Protestants but known as the Deuterocanonical Books by Catholics and others. [00:00:56] Again, all this is taken from my book the A Historical and Literary Introduction. Oxford University Press Charts of Hebrew and English Bibles the Hebrew bible the Torah 5 Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Neviim the prophets 8 books former 4 books Joshua, Judges, Samuel count as one book kings count as one book latter prophets 4 books Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel the 12 count as one Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, ketuvim the writings 11 books Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ruth Song of Songs Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther, Daniel, ezra, and Nehemiah 1 book Chronicles 1 book the English Bible the historical books 17 books Pentateuch 5 books Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers Deuteronomy Other historical books 12 books Joshua, Judges, Ruth 1st and 2nd Samuel 1st and 2nd Kings Ezra Nehemiah, Esther 1st and 2nd Chronicles Poetic books 5 books Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Songs prophets 17 books Major prophets 5 books Isaiah, Jeremiah Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel Minor prophets 12 books Hosea Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi now, as I mentioned, some Christian denominations have additional books in the Old Testament that are not included in the Hebrew Bible or in the Protestant Old Testament. Protestants consider these books to be the Apocrypha. The churches that include them consider them deuterocanonical. [00:03:24] There are three categories of these other books. Just to keep things confusing, 10 of them are included in all Bibles of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches, but the Greek Orthodox Bible and the Slavonic Orthodox Bible have several additional books as well, not in the Roman Catholic canon. [00:03:44] These various books are not included at the end in an appendix as in the Protestant Bibles that include the Apocrypha, but as non canonical writings, but are interspersed in appropriate places among the books found in the Hebrew Bible. [00:03:59] Additional books in Bible both Roman Catholic and Orthodox Old Testaments Tobit, Judith, additions to Esther Wisdom of Solomon Ecclesiasticus also called the Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach Baruch Letter of Jeremiah additions to Daniel Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Jews Susanna, Belle and the Dragon First Maccabees, Second Maccabees still other books in Greek Orthodox Old Testament Prayer of Manasseh Psalm 151 1st Esdras, 3rd Maccabees 4th Maccabees in an appendix and other books in Slavonic Orthodox Old Testament Prayer of a Manasseh Psalm 151 2nd Esdras, 3rd Esdras, 3rd Maccabees if you're interested in basic information about these books, I deal with most of them in my textbook mentioned above. [00:05:04] And yes, all this will be on your final examination.