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The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. [1] The second division of Christian Bibles is the New Testament, written in Koine Greek.
There are 66 books in the King James Bible; 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. The Catholic Bible contains 73 books; the additional seven books are called the Apocrypha and are considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but not by other Christians.
The historical books are a division of Christian Bibles, grouping 12 (or in some denominations more) books of the Old Testament. Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.
The historical books are a division of Christian Bibles, grouping 12 (or in some denominations more) books of the Old Testament. [1] [page needed] It includes the Former Prophets from the Nevi'im and two of the ungrouped books of Ketuvim of the Hebrew Bible together with the Book of Ruth and the Book of Esther which in the Hebrew are both found in the Five Megillot.
The biblical book of Samuel-Kings was divided into two parts in the original Hebrew so it would fit conveniently onto ancient scrolls.When it was translated into Greek it expanded by a third (because Greek writing uses more letters per word in average than Hebrew writing), and so each part was divided in half, producing the books known today as 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel and 1 Kings and 2 Kings.
Old Testament refers to the various Christian canons of the Hebrew Bible, in Judaism also known as Tanakh. See Category:Hebrew Bible for topics that are common to Judaism and Christianity. Also included under the categorization of "Old Testament" are the deuterocanonical books of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons.