What is the center book of the Bible?

Answer 1

This is a highly debatable question. Firstly it depends on which denomination's Bible is being used. The standard Protestant edition of The Bible has only 66 books and therefore cannot have a "central" book. Both Catholic and Orthodox Bibles have more than this, and an odd number, 73 for Roman Catholic Bibles, and 83 for the broadest Eastern Orthodox Canon. (There are however some which have only 82 (The Ethiopian orthodox, however they may in fact have other books in their New Testament which may make the number odd).

There is also an issue depending on which arrangement of books because not all Bibles used the same arrangement. For example, when the apocrypha was printed in the King James Bible, it was printed between the Old and New Testaments in a special section. however in Catholic Bibles the books were spread out in a more logical order, Wisdom and Ben Sirach in the Poetry section, Baruch after Nehemiah, Additions to Esther in the book of Esther, the additions to Daniel in the book of Daniel, and the Macabees between the prophets and the New Testament as it would have been historically. However some modern scholars have changed the arrangement again. So unfortunately the question you ask is very hard to answer correctly due to the huge variation in possible answers.

In the standard modern Protestant Bible, the two middle books are Micah and Nahum.