The other Christian Bibles have 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. The Catholic Bible has seven additional books in the Old Testament. These extra books are Tobit, Judith, ...

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, ... Jesus and the Church of the first four centuries, i.e., the 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament. [A&W, p.33] ...

As for lectionaries, heard in many churches each Sunday morning, the Revised Common Lectionary omits seven books of the Old Testament and severely underrepresents 13 others, Strawn writes.

The 39 books of the Old Testament comprise 78 percent of the Protestant Christian Bible (even more in Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican canons).

Previously we had been talking about the order and organization of the Bible, starting with the sections in Hebrew tradition of the 39 books most Christians call the Old Testament.

When talking about “the Bible,” I’ll be referring to the version of the Bible shared by the largest number of people, namely, the 39 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New ...

Bonhoeffer, of course, wasn’t an Old Testament scholar. But in 1937, writing to a church caving to the Nazi agenda, he put on the prophetic mantle and cast an uncompromising vision for following ...

I’ve been encouraging people to look into the Bible this spring, first outlining the general structure of the 39 books of the Old Testament (as most Protestants count them).

Casey Cep writes about her experience reading the Old Testament during pregnancy, for a course taught by the novelist Marilynne Robinson, noting how Biblical stories about mothers stand out to her ...