How is the Bible Laid Out?

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The Christian Bible Compared With the Jewish Bible

How is the Bible laid out? Now, there is a distinction between the Christian Bible and the Jewish Bible. The Jewish Bible is gonna be laid out more chronologically, but the Christian Bible is what we're gonna deal with.

The Old Testament Divisions: Law, Writings, and Prophets

And let's start with the Old Testament. You have three major divisions. The Law, the Writings, and the Prophets. The Law are the first five books. Known as the Pentateuch. They're a historical narrative.

Followed by that is the other historical narratives that are part of the category of the Writings. That's gonna be Joshua through Esther. They're historical. Followed by the poetical, more Hebrew poetry books, which is Job through Song of Solomon.

Those are all considered the Writings. Then you have the Prophets. The Prophets are broken down as major and minor. That doesn't have to do with the content as much as it has to do with the length. So the longer they are, that is the major Prophets.

The minor Prophets are shorter. There's debate over Daniel versus Zechariah. They're both 12 chapters. You can argue that. In the New Testament, you have historical, epistles, and revelation. Revelation is in a category by itself, but the historical is broken down by the four Gospels and the book of Acts.

The New Testament Divisions: Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Revelation

Those are historical narratives. Then you have the epistles, which are broken down by the volume of them. So Paul writing the largest amount, then Hebrews, James, Peter, John, Jude. Then you have the book of Revelation.

So this is basically how you have the Bible laid out.

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