"they speak will be evident."" This new order is introduced because ""the order in which today's readers are used to encountering the books of the Bible is yet another factor that hinders their understanding."" The book order in ""The Books of the Bible,"" and the rationale for it, is as follows: The Covenant History ""The first quarter of the Bible unfolds as one continuous narrative."" Genesis<br> Exodus<br> Leviticus<br> Numbers<br> Deuteronomy<br> Joshua<br> Judges<br> Ruth<br> Samuel–Kings The Prophets The prophets are presented in ""what… is plausibly their historical order."" Jonah Amos<br> Hosea<br> Micah<br> Isaiah Zephaniah<br> Nahum<br> Habakkuk Jeremiah<br> Obadiah<br> Ezekiel Haggai<br> Zechariah<br>"
"Book of Isaiah The Book of Isaiah (, ) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. It is identified by a superscription as the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet Isaiah ben Amoz, but there is extensive evidence that much of it was composed during the Babylonian captivity and later. Bernhard Duhm originated the view, held as a consensus through most of the 20th century, that the book comprises three separate collections of oracles: ""Proto-Isaiah"" (chapters 1–39), containing the words of Isaiah; ""Deutero-Isaiah"" (chapters"
"First Epistle of Peter The First Epistle of Peter, usually referred to simply as First Peter and often written 1 Peter, is a book of the New Testament. The author presents himself as Peter the Apostle, and, following Roman Catholic tradition, the epistle has been held to have been written during his time as bishop of Rome or Bishop of Antioch, though neither title is used in the epistle. The text of the letter states that it was written from Babylon. The letter is addressed to various churches in Asia Minor suffering religious persecution. The authorship of 1 Peter has"
"Gospel of Matthew The Gospel According to Matthew (; also called the Gospel of Matthew or simply, Matthew) is the first book of the New Testament and one of the three synoptic gospels. It tells how the Messiah, Jesus, rejected by Israel, finally sends the disciples to preach the gospel to the whole world. Most scholars believe it was composed between AD 80 and 90, with a range of possibility between AD 70 to 110 (a pre-70 date remains a minority view). The anonymous author was probably a male Jew, standing on the margin between traditional and non-traditional Jewish values,"
"God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel. Online translations of ""Book of Amos"": Book of Amos The Book of Amos is the third of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Tanakh/Old Testament and the second in the Greek Septuagint tradition. Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II (788–747 BC), making the Book of Amos the first biblical book in the section of the prophets written. Amos lived in the kingdom of Judah but preached in the northern"
"Book of Habakkuk The Book of Habakkuk is the eighth book of the 12 minor prophets of the Bible. It is attributed to the prophet Habakkuk, and was probably composed in the late 7th century BC. Of the three chapters in the book, the first two are a dialog between Yahweh and the prophet. The message that ""the just shall live by his faith"" (2:4) plays an important role in Christian thought. It is used in the Epistle to the Romans, Epistle to the Galatians, and the Epistle to the Hebrews as the starting point of the concept of faith."
"Amos 1 Amos 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Amos in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Amos, especially God's judgments on Syria, Philistia, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon. It is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language: Ancient translations in Koine Greek: NKJV groups this chapter into: Cross reference: Research by Creationist geology professor Steven A. Austin and colleagues published in 2000 suggested that widely separated archaeological excavations in the"
"Book of Genesis The Book of Genesis (from the Latin Vulgate, in turn borrowed or transliterated from Greek """", meaning ""Origin""; , """"Bərēšīṯ"""", ""In [the] beginning"") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) and the Old Testament. It can be divided into two parts, the Primeval history (chapters 1–11) and the Ancestral history (chapters 12–50). The primeval history sets out the author's (or authors') concepts of the nature of the deity and of humankind's relationship with its maker: God creates a world which is good and fit for mankind, but when man corrupts it with sin God"
"described in Zechariah revealed ""no direct or indirect evidence that Jerusalem was damaged."" Amos 1 Amos 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Amos in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Amos, especially God's judgments on Syria, Philistia, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon. It is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language: Ancient translations in Koine Greek: NKJV groups this chapter into: Cross reference: Research by Creationist geology professor Steven A. Austin"
"Book of Amos The Book of Amos is the third of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Tanakh/Old Testament and the second in the Greek Septuagint tradition. Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II (788–747 BC), making the Book of Amos the first biblical book in the section of the prophets written. Amos lived in the kingdom of Judah but preached in the northern kingdom of Israel. His major themes of social justice, God's omnipotence, and divine judgment became staples of prophecy. The book opens with a historical"
"tables."" The book could be seen as an allusion to the history as described by Moses; for the minor Prophets, in promising God's assistance to his people, must often remind how God in a miraculous manner brought up the Jews from Egypt. Book of Nahum The Book of Nahum is the seventh book of the 12 minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible. It is attributed to the prophet Nahum, and was probably written in Jerusalem in the 7th century BC. According to some, Nahum prophesied in the beginning of the reign of Ahaz (740s BC). Others, however, think that his"
"instance, the words of the Torah, or the first five books of the Old Testament, have traditionally been believed to be by the hand of Moses, and the New Testament Gospels have been attributed to the Four Evangelists. Modern scholarship calls these attributions into question. Eliot Rabin writes: ""For the past 400 years, readers have been openly questioning the traditional attribution of these five books to Moses."" For instance, he quotes Thomas Hobbes in his 1651 ""Leviathan"" as writing that, when Genesis 12:6 has ""and the Canaanite was then in the land"", it could not have been written by Moses."
"Isaiah 1 Isaiah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language: Ancient translations in Koine Greek: The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows: According to the Pulpit Commentary, the prophecies of Isaiah ""concern primarily the kingdom of Judah, not that of Israel"". This verse ""is probably best understood as the heading of the"
"Jeremiah 1 Jeremiah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book, one of the Nevi'im or Books of the Prophets, contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Jeremiah. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language: Ancient translations in Koine Greek: The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows: According to , Anathoth was one of the levitical or priestly cities located within the land of the tribe of Benjamin. The prophecies of Jeremiah and Amos are attributed to them"
"First Nephi The First Book of Nephi: His Reign and Ministry (), usually referred to as First Nephi or 1 Nephi, is the first book of the Book of Mormon and one of four books with the name Nephi. The original translation of the title did not include the word ""first"". First and Second were added to the titles of The Books of Nephi by Oliver Cowdery when preparing the book for printing. It is a first-person narrative by a prophet named Nephi, of events that began around 600 BC and recorded on the small plates of Nephi approximately 30"
"belong to the Prophets (""Nevi'im""). However, in other passages Swedenborg states that Moses and Elijah represent the Law and the Prophets respectively, and as Elijah appears in the book of Kings that would indicate that this book should belong among the Prophets. The other books of the Old Testament, which are not believed to be divinely inspired, include those that are generally grouped by the Jews under the ""Writings"" (""Ketuvim""). In the Greek Septuagint these works were mixed in with the rest of scripture, which largely determined the Biblical book order for all of Christianity. Moreover, the Greek Septuagint introduced"
"a leader of a predominantly Jewish congregation to whom he or she was writing. Because of its anonymity, it had some trouble being accepted as part of the Christian canon, being classed with the Antilegomena. Eventually it was accepted as scripture because of its sound theology, eloquent presentation, and other intrinsic factors. In antiquity, certain circles began to ascribe it to Paul in an attempt to provide the anonymous work an explicit apostolic pedigree. The original King James Version of the Bible titled the work ""The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews"". However, the KJV's attribution to Paul"
"Isaiah Isaiah was the 8th-century BC Jewish prophet for whom the Book of Isaiah is named. Within the text of the Book of Isaiah, Isaiah himself is referred to as ""the prophet"", but the exact relationship between the Book of Isaiah and any such historical Isaiah is complicated. The traditional view is that all 66 chapters of the book of Isaiah were written by one man, Isaiah, possibly in two periods between 740 BCE and c. 686 BCE, separated by approximately 15 years, and includes dramatic prophetic declarations of Cyrus the Great in the Bible, acting to restore the nation"
"Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, Epistles of Paul, or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament, composed of letters which are largely attributed to Paul the Apostle, although authorship of some is in dispute. Among these letters are some of the earliest extant Christian documents. They provide an insight into the beliefs and controversies of early Christianity and as part of the canon of the New Testament they are foundational texts for both Christian theology and ethics. The Epistle to the Hebrews, although it does not bear his name, was traditionally considered Pauline for a thousand"
"Book of Obadiah The Book of Obadiah is an oracle concerning the divine judgment of Edom and the restoration of Israel. The text consists of a single chapter, divided into 21 verses, making it the shortest book in the Hebrew Bible. In Judaism and Christianity, its authorship is attributed to a prophet who lived in the Assyrian Period and named himself in the first verse, Obadiah. His name means ""servant of Yahweh"". In Judaism, Obadiah is considered a ""later prophet"", placed in the last section (Nevi'im) of the Tanakh, where it is one of the ""Twelve Prophets."" In Christianity, the"
"individually in the opening words of the relevant biblical books: in other cases such as Hosea, Joel, and Micah, their prophecies are described from the outset as ""the word of the Lord"". Cross reference: King James Version: Repeated again at the end of verse 19, closing this chapter: Jeremiah 1 Jeremiah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book, one of the Nevi'im or Books of the Prophets, contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Jeremiah. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in"
"Jeremiah Jeremiah, also called the ""weeping prophet"", was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). According to Jewish tradition, Jeremiah authored the Book of Jeremiah, the Books of Kings and the Book of Lamentations, with the assistance and under the editorship of Baruch ben Neriah, his scribe and disciple. Greater detail is known about Jeremiah's life than for that of any other prophet. However, no biography of him can be written, as there are few facts available. Judaism considers the Book of Jeremiah part of its canon, and regards Jeremiah as the second of the major"
"Though it wasn't the first Gospel written, the Gospel of Matthew is traditionally placed as the first book of the New Testament, so these are textually the first words spoken by Jesus in the entire Bible. However they are not very well known or much quoted. Scholars have paid considerable attention to them, mainly because of their vagueness. As it was the first Gospel that was written according to general scholarship, the first recorded words of Jesus are actually in Mark 1:15: “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. So mετανοείτε, and believe in"
"survived in its oldest version in Greek, in the Slavonic translation derived from Greek and, in its latest form, from the Syrian and Arabic variants.[12] The earliest mention of the Testament of Job is in the decree of Pope Gelasius, promulgated about AD 496, in which it is condemned as apocryphal: “Liber qui appellatur Testamentum Job apocryphus”.[13] Literally, it belongs to the “testaments”, an apocryphal body of writings which were compiled to preserve the teachings and the histories of great, usually Biblical, figures whose names they bear.[14] Within this group the Testament of Job is, in its general complexion, more"
"Jonah 1 Jonah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Jonah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Jonah, and is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language: Ancient translations in Koine Greek: NKJV groups this chapter into: Based on Book of 2 Kings (), Jonah is of Gath-hepher in Zebulun (called Gittah-hepher in ), so that he belonged to the kingdom of the ten tribes, not to Judah. He prophesied"
"Book of Hosea The Book of Hosea is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. According to the traditional order of most Hebrew Bibles, it is the first of the twelve Minor Prophets. Set around the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, the Book of Hosea denounces the worship of gods other than Yahweh, metaphorically comparing Israel's abandonment of Yahweh to a woman being unfaithful to her husband. According to the book's narrative, the relationship between Hosea and his unfaithful wife Gomer is comparable to the relationship between Yahweh and his unfaithful people Israel. The eventual reconciliation of"
"First Epistle of John The First Epistle of John, often referred to as First John and written 1 John or I John, is the first of the Johannine epistles of the New Testament, and the fourth of the catholic epistles. It is attributed to John the Evangelist, traditionally thought to be the author of the Gospel of John and the other two Johannine epistles. This epistle was probably written in Ephesus in AD 95–110. The work was written to counter docetism, which is the belief that Jesus did not come ""in the flesh"", but only as a spirit. It also"
"First Epistle to the Corinthians The First Epistle to the Corinthians (), usually referred to simply as First Corinthians and often written 1 Corinthians, is one of the Pauline epistles of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The epistle says that Paul the Apostle and ""Sosthenes our brother"" wrote it to ""the church of God which is at Corinth"" although the scholarly consensus holds that Sosthenes was the amanuensis who wrote down the text of the letter at Paul's direction. Called ""a masterpiece of pastoral theology"", it addresses various issues that had arisen in the Christian community at Corinth."
"different points of view—that the Bible's authors were often motivated to write because they wanted to challenge or correct those who had written before them. The Torah is viewed by some as the literal word of God, dictated to Moses. According to the 12th-century Jewish scholar Maimonides, ""The Torah that we have today is the one dictated to Moses by God"". The Prophets, such as Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Jonah, are said to have heard and reported the word of God, while the Writings (the category that includes books such as Psalms, Lamentations and Chronicles) ""were excluded from the prophetic collection"
"the leader of early Israel out of Egypt; and traditionally the first five books of the Hebrew Bible are attributed to him, though most modern scholars believe there were multiple authors. The law attributed to Moses, specifically the laws set out in the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, as a consequence came to be considered supreme over all other sources of authority (any king and/or his officials), and the Levites were the guardians and interpreters of the law. The Book of Deuteronomy () records Moses saying, ""Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the"
"include it as a footnote. First Epistle of John The First Epistle of John, often referred to as First John and written 1 John or I John, is the first of the Johannine epistles of the New Testament, and the fourth of the catholic epistles. It is attributed to John the Evangelist, traditionally thought to be the author of the Gospel of John and the other two Johannine epistles. This epistle was probably written in Ephesus in AD 95–110. The work was written to counter docetism, which is the belief that Jesus did not come ""in the flesh"", but only"
"this he sets the unquenchable love of God, who, in spite of this infidelity, does not cast Israel away forever, but will take His people unto Himself again after the judgment. Book of Hosea The Book of Hosea is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. According to the traditional order of most Hebrew Bibles, it is the first of the twelve Minor Prophets. Set around the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, the Book of Hosea denounces the worship of gods other than Yahweh, metaphorically comparing Israel's abandonment of Yahweh to a woman being unfaithful to her"
"should not be understood literally. Joel (prophet) Joel (; ""Yōw’êl""; ""Yu'il"") was a prophet of ancient Israel, the second of the twelve minor prophets and the author of the Book of Joel. He is mentioned by name only once in the Hebrew Bible, in the introduction to his own brief book, as the son of Pethuel (). The name Joel combines the covenant name of God, YHWH (or Yahweh), and El (god), and has been translated as ""one to whom YHWH is God,"" that is, a worshiper of YHWH. He is believed to have lived in the 9th century BCE,"