How many books is The Bible?

Answer 1

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.