Bible

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Bible

The Bible is the Holy Book used by Christians to live a life of faith and love. The Bible includes the Rabbinic Hebrew Scripture of the Old Testament and the New Testament, which relates the life and teachings of Jesus, the working of the Holy Spirit through the apostles in the book of Acts, the letters of the Apostle Paul and other disciples to the early church and the Book of Revelation. True believers confess the authority of the Bible as God's infallible word to humanity.

The Old Testament

The term The Old Testament refers to all versions and translations of the Hebrew Bible and is the first major part of the Bible used by Christians. It is usually divided by Judaism into the categories of law: Torah; prophecy: Neviim; and writings: Kethuvim (history, poetry, wisdom books); as denoted by the acronym Tanakh.

The Protestant Old Testament is for the most part identical with the Jewish Tanakh. The differences between the Tanakh and the Protestant Old Testament are minor, dealing only with the arrangement and number of the books. For example, while the Tanakh considers Kings to be a unified text, the Protestant Old Testament divides it into two books. Similarly Ezra and Nehemiah are considered to be one book by the Tanakh.

All of these books were written before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, whose teaching and immediate disciples' deeds and teachings are the subject of the subsequent writings of Christian New Testament. The scriptures used by Jesus were according to Luke 24:44–49: "the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms ... the scriptures". According to most Bible scholars, the Old Testament was composed between the 5th century BC and the 2nd century BC, though parts of it, such as parts of the Torah, and the Song of Deborah (Judges 5), probably date back much earlier.

Books of The Old Testament

The Old Testament is comprised of 39 books.

Genesis

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Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Obadiah

Jonah

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi

The New Testament

The New Testament is a collection of 27 books, produced by Christians, with Jesus Christ as its central figure, written primarily in Koine Greek in the early Christian period.

Gospel According to Matthew

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Gospel According to Mark

Gospel According to Luke

Gospel According to John

Acts of the Apostles

Epistle to the Romans

First Epistle to the Corinthians

Second Epistle to the Corinthians

Epistle to the Galatians

Epistle to the Ephesians

Epistle to the Philippians

Epistle to the Colossians

First Epistle to the Thessalonians

Second Epistle to the Thessalonians

Pastoral Epistles

First Epistle to Timothy

Second Epistle to Timothy

Epistle to Titus

Epistle to Philemon

Epistle to the Hebrews

General Epistles

Epistle of James

First Epistle of Peter

Second Epistle of Peter

First Epistle of John

Second Epistle of John

Third Epistle of John

Epistle of Jude

Revelation

Bible Resources

• The Bible from Bibleserver.com
  http://www.bibleserver.com/index.php

• Bible Concordance / Dictionary
  http://www.ibs.org/niv/appendix/concordance.php

• Listen to the Bible at BibleGateway.com
  http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/audio/

• The Bible available in PDF format
  http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/ebooks/

• Daily Bible Reading from Christianity.com
  http://bible.christianity.com/BibleInAYear/DailyReading.cgi

• Commentaries on the New Testament from BibleGateway.com
  http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/

• Classic Bible Commentaries from Gospelcom.net
  http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/

• Bible Dictionaries from BibleGateway.com
  http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/dictionaries/

• Concordances from StudyLight.org
  http://www.studylight.org/con/

• Table of Weights and Measures
  http://www.ibs.org/niv/table_measures.php

• Holy Land Photos
  http://www.holylandphotos.org

• Discuss the Bible at StudyBibleForum.com
  http://www.studybibleforum.com/

• The Works of Flavius Josephus (famous Jewish historian)
  http://www.studylight.org/his/bc/wfj/

• Writings of Alfred Edersheim
  http://www.studylight.org/his/bc/edr/

• Church History resources
  http://www.studylight.org/his/ad/

• Today in Christian History
  http://www.studylight.org/his/tich/

Devotionals

• Girl Meets God
  http://www.liveasif.org/view.cgi?type=a&freq=w&list=20060308003

• Question of the Week
  http://www.gotquestions.org/questweek.html

Bible Quizzes

• Bible Quiz http://www.biblesociety.ca/free_scriptures/bible_quiz/index.html

Bible in Audio Format

• AudioTreasure.com http://www.audiotreasure.com/