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The Bible:
Books of the Bible

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Introduction

The Protestant Bible has 66 books divided up into two parts, the Old and New Testaments. The Catholic Bible has the same books as the Protestant Bible plus the Apocrypha. The Jewish Bible is the same as the Old Testament Protestant Bible except the order of the books is different. The Jewish Bible divides the 39 books into three parts; Law, Prophets, and Writings.

Old Testament

Pentateuch/Law (5)

Genesis

• Genesis 1
• Genesis 2
• Was There An Historic Adam?
• Did the Ancients Live Longer?
• Where is the Garden of Eden?
• Was There Death Before Sin?
• Where Did Cain Get His Wife?
• The Mark of Cain!
• Enoch Walked With God!
• Genesis 6-9 Noah's Flood
• Noah’s Flood, Global or Local?
• Wood From Noah’s Ark?
• Where is Noah’s Ark?
• Impossible Flood Geology!
• Genesis 10 - The Table of Nations
• Genesis 11:1-9 - The Tower of Babel
• Genesis 11-12 - Where was Abraham's Ur?
• Genesis 18-19 - Sodom & Gomorrah
• Genesis 37-50 - The Story of Joseph
• Genesis & the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Genesis & the LXX (Septuagint)

Exodus

• Exodus-exit from Egypt.
• Date of the Exodus
• Archaeology & the Exodus
• Exodus & the Dead Sea Scrolls

Leviticus

• Leviticus-Levite laws

Numbers

• Numbers-numbering the people, or wilderness Wanderings

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy-second giving of the law, the covenant
• Deuteronomy & the Dead Sea Scrolls

History (12)

Joshua

• Joshua-conquering Canaan
• The Sun Stood Still
• Joshua & the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Joshua & the LXX

Judges

• Judges-judges judge, cycle of sin.
• Judges & the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Judges & the LXX

Ruth

• Ruth-redemption

I & II Samuel

• I Samuel-Samuel & Saul
• I&2 Samuel & the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Samuel & the LXX
• II Samuel-King David

I & II Kings

• I Kings-Solomon to Ahaziah, Elijah.
• II Kings-Ahaziah to Babylonian captivity, Elisha.

I & II Chronicles

• I Chronicles-History of Adam to David.
• II Chronicles-Solomon to Babylonian captivity.

Ezra

• Ezra-Return of exiles, Rebuilt temple, Revival preaching of Ezra the priest.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah- Rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Nehemiah the king's cupbearer.

Esther

• Esther-Queen of Persia. Feast of Purim.
• Esther & the LXX

Poetry (5)

Job

• Job-poem of suffering. Why do the righteous suffer?
• Job 9:6-Pillars of the Earth
• Job 22:14-The Circle of Heavens
• Job 26:11-Pillars of Heaven
• Job 40-Dinosaurs in the Bible?

Psalms

• Psalms-poems of praise, hymn book.
• Psalms & the Dead Sea Scrolls

Proverbs

• Proverbs-poem of wisdom. Advice of Solomon to his son.
• Proverbs & the LXX

Ecclesiastes

• Ecclesiastes-poem of life. Vanity of Vanities.

Song of Solomon

• Song of Solomon-poem of love. Solomon and the Shulammite.

Prophecy (17)

Major Prophets (5)

Isaiah

• Isaiah-Judgment and hope.
• Isaiah 38-Sun's Shallow Moves Back
• Isaiah 40:22-The Circle of the Earth

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah-Judgment of Jerusalem
• Jeremiah & the LXX

Lamentations

• Lamentations-weeping over Jerusalem, acrostic poems of lament.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel-Judgment and restoration.
• Ezekiel & the LXX

Daniel

• Daniel-God's control over kingdoms.
• Daniel & the Dead Sea Scrolls

Minor Prophets (12)

Hosea

• Hosea-God's faithfulness when Israel is unfaithful. Hosea's wife Gomer leaves him, then restored.

Joel

• Joel-Coming judgment.

Amos

• Amos-Call for social justice.
• Amos 9:7-10
• Amos - Postmodern Bible commentary http://bible.gen.nz/ (Off site)

Obadiah

• Obadiah-judgment on prideful Edom (capitol Petra).

Johah

• Jonah-God's compassion, Nineveh is spared.
• What about the modern day stories of someone being swallowed by a whale like Jonah? http://www.reasons.org/resources/

Micah

• Micah-Gloom and Glory.

Nahum

• Nahum-Judgment of Nineveh.

Habakkuk

• Habakkuk-Just shall live by faith.

Zephaniah

• Zephaniah-Coming judgment, the Day of the Lord.

Haggai

• Haggai-rebuilding the temple.

Zechariah

• Zechariah-Rebuke to rebuild the temple.

Malachi

• Malachi-Robbing God of tithes.

New Testament (27)

Gospels (4) The Life of Christ

Matthew

• Jesus as king of the Jews.

Mark

• Jesus as servant.

Luke

• Jesus as man.

John

• Jesus as God.

History of the Church (1)

Acts

• History of the early church.
• Paul's missionary trips.

Letters (4) Epistles-formal letters

Romans

• Theology.
• Doctrine.

I Corinthians

• Problems in the church.

II Corinthians

• Comfort.

Galatians

• Law vs. grace.
• Judaizers.

Prison Epistles (6)

Ephesians

• Heavenly Purpose and Earthly Practice.

Philippians

• Count it all joy.

Colossians

• Colossian Heresy-gnosticism (Philemon-Forgiveness, forgive run away slave).

I Thessalonians

• Christ's Coming.

II Thessalonians

• Christ's Coming Pastoral.

Epistles (3)

I Timothy

• Pastoral instructions.

II Timothy

• Final Farewell. 

Titus

• Pastoral instructions on Crete. 

Philemon

• Forgiveness, forgive run away slave (Prison Epistle).

General Epistles (8)

Hebrews

• Open letter to Jews.

James

• Brother of Jesus.
• Wisdom - the NT's book of Proverbs.

I Peter

• Holy living.

II Peter

• Dealing with false teachers.

I John

• Love one another.
• Gnosticism. 

II John

• Letter to a lady and her children.
• Beware of traveling evangelists.

III John

• Letter to Gaius.
• Warning against Diotrephes. 

Jude

• Brother of Jesus.
• False teachers of apostasy.

Prophecy (1)

Revelation

• The future.

 

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