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How many books are in the New Testament of Catholics bible?
Catholic bibles and Protestant bibles contain the same 27 books in the New Testament.
How many books in the Old Testament and New Testament?
There are 39 books or 46 books in the Old Testament scripture depending on which Biblical canon you accept. The Protestant Bibles have 39 books and the Catholic Bibles have 46 which include an additional 7 Apocrypha books. New Testament cannon is 27 books in both Protestant and Catholic Bibles.
How many books are there in Christian Bibles?
There are 66 books in the Bible. 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.
How many Bibles are in the Old Testament?
There is only one bible , but there are more books.
How many books are in the New Testament including the Apocryphal books?
There are a total of 27, twenty seven books in the New Testament. You may see Apocryphal (or Deuterocanonical) books in the Old Testament of Catholic and Greek Orthodox bibles such as the book of Tolbit or Judith, but you won't see Apocryphal books in the New Testament of mainstream Christian bibles.
What are the different ways of dividing books in the Hebrew and Christian bibles?
Hebrew Bibles contain 24 books divided into 3 parts: The Torah, The Prohets, and the Writings. Christian Bibles contain 66 books, divided into 2 parts: The Old Testament (39 books) and the New Testament (27 books) (Christians subdivide many books that Jews do not subdivide).
How many books is The Bible?
There are 39 books or 46 books in the Old Testament scripture depending on which Biblical canon you accept. The Protestant Bibles have 39 books and the Catholic Bibles have 46 which include an additional 7 Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical books.Rabbinic Judaism recognizes 24 books of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, which are the core books accepted in the Old Testament of Christian Bibles. The Hebrew Bible combines several books into a single book (e.g. 12 minor prophet books were originally grouped as a single book) so this accounts for some of the discrepancy in the count for number of books.New Testament cannon is 27 books in both Protestant and Catholic Bibles.
How many books are there in the Bible total?
The 24 books of the Hebrew Bible are the same as the 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament, only divided and ordered differently: the books of the Minor Prophets are in Christian Bibles twelve different books, and in Hebrew Bibles, one book called "The Twelve".
How many books are in the Bible altogether?
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.
How many books are in a holy bible?
The Hebrew Bible has 24 books, Catholic Bibles have 73 books, Protestant Bibles have 66 books, and Eastern Orthodox Bibles have up to 81 books.
How many books are there in the Old Testament?
There are 39 books in the Protestant Old Testament from Genesis to Malachi. If there are more than that in your Bible, it is because it is a Catholic version (46), an Orthodox version, or includes the Apocrypha in the number. That is because the Septuagent was used as the source material. It contains more books than the Masoretic text and was thus not accepted as authentic by mainstream rabbinic Judaism. After the Protestant Reformation, many Protestant Bibles began to exclude the extra books which were not accepted by the Jewish community. However, some Christan Bibles include the disputed books in their own section called the Apocrypha.The Jewish Bible (from which the Old Testament is derived) only has 24 books, since the Christian Bibles split a number of the books into separate books.39 42 if you count right
How many books did the Greek cannon add to the canon?
The Greek canon added 8 books to the Old Testament canon. These books, known as the Deuterocanonical books, are not present in the Hebrew Bible but are included in the Greek Septuagint and Catholic Bibles.
