Bible Basics

The Bible is the oldest book.
It is a collection of books.

It was written over a period of thousands of years, by many different writers.

All of the writers agree over the message given and claim that they wrote down the word of God.






BIBLE FACTS
Holy Bible means a "Separate Book"
66 individual books
Old Testament: 39 books
New Testament:27 books







Old Testament
The Law
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
'The Books of Moses'. In the Hebrew Scripture these books are called the Torah.


Historical Books
These books describe the history of Israel from the death of Moses to the establishment of the kingdom under Saul, David and Solomon;


Poetic books
Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon.

The Prophets

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, The opening verses of these books will usually say at which period of history the prophets preached.



The New Testament

The Gospels
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
The Gospel writers tell us about the birth of Jesus, his ministry and teaching, his crucifixion and resurrection.

History
Acts
The full name is 'The Acts of the Apostles' and the book describes the spread of Christianity and the missonary journeys of Paul.


Letters
These were written by Paul to the new churches.