How many books are in the Bible altogether?

Answer 1

In the standard Bible there are 39 Books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament making 66 in all. However, bibles vary as to which books are accepted as 'canonical' - accepted as scripture because of their providence and teaching. Roman Catholic Bibles differ especially in the Old Testament where certain other books (part of an additional, non-canonical section called the Apocrypha in protestant Bibles) are included. The Greek Orthodox Bible also differs slightly with the addition of extra books in the Old Testament. However, except for just a few minor differences in the letters, all New testament books are the same across the Lutheran, Protestamt, Catholic and Orthodox churches.