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    The Bible was written over 1600 years by around 40 authors from various backgrounds. It is comprised of 66 books that together tell a unified story. Though written at different times and places, the books do not contradict each other and references in one book help explain references in others. The Bible is divided into the Old and New Testaments, with the Old Testament divided into the Law, Prophets, and other writings. This document provides information on the authorship, timeline, unity, and divisions of the Bible.

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    The Bible was written over 1600 years by around 40 authors from various backgrounds. It is comprised of 66 books that together tell a unified story. Though written at different times and places, the books do not contradict each other and references in one book help explain references in others. The Bible is divided into the Old and New Testaments, with the Old Testament divided into the Law, Prophets, and other writings. This document provides information on the authorship, timeline, unity, and divisions of the Bible.

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    The Bible was written over 1600 years by around 40 authors from various backgrounds. It is comprised of 66 books that together tell a unified story. Though written at different times and places, the books do not contradict each other and references in one book help explain references in others. The Bible is divided into the Old and New Testaments, with the Old Testament divided into the Law, Prophets, and other writings. This document provides information on the authorship, timeline, unity, and divisions of the Bible.

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    The Bible was written over 1600 years by around 40 authors from various backgrounds. It is comprised of 66 books that together tell a unified story. Though written at different times and places, the books do not contradict each other and references in one book help explain references in others. The Bible is divided into the Old and New Testaments, with the Old Testament divided into the Law, Prophets, and other writings. This document provides information on the authorship, timeline, unity, and divisions of the Bible.

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    The format

    of the Bible
    A. General
    information
    about the
    bible
    • AUTHORHIP AND TIME
    WRITING
    THE BIBLE IS COMPRISED OF SIXTY-SIX BOOKS
    WRITTEN OVER A PERIOD OF ABOUT 1,600 YEARS
    BY ABOUT FORTY DIFFERENT WRITERS. MOSES
    AUTHORED THE FIRST BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
    AROUND 1500 B.C. BY THE INSPIRATION OF GOD,
    AND THE APOSTLE JOHN ADDED GOD'S FINAL
    REVELATION ABOUT 97 A.D. GOD USED MEN OF
    EVERY STATION OF LIFE TO PEN HIS WORDS TO
    MANKIND: HERDSMEN, KINGS, PRIESTS,
    PROPHETS, FARM LABORERS, FISHERMEN,
    PHYSICIANS, TAX COLLECTORS, LAWYERS, AND
    TEACHERS. THESE "HOLY MEN OF GOD SPAKE AS
    THEY WERE MOVED BY THE HOLY GHOST" (11
    PETER 1:21).
    2. UNITY OF THE
    BIBLE
    WHILE THE BIBLE IS A COLLECTION OF SIXTY-SIX
    BOOKS, IT IS BY NO MEANS JUST A SMALL LIBRARY OF
    VARIED SUBJECTS. IT IS NOT A CURIOUS COLLECTOR'S
    ITEM. ITS SIXTY-SIX BOOKS FORM A UNIFIED WHOLE
    WITH A MAIN THEME RUNNING THROUGH EACH BOOK
    AND TYING ONE TO THE OTHER. THESE BOOKS ARE THE
    "DIVINE LIBRARY" WHICH FIT TOGETHER IN PERFECT
    HARMONY. THE CONTENT OF EACH BOOK ADDS
    SOMETHING TO THE TOTAL REVELATION WHICH GOD
    DESIGNED TO GIVE MANKIND.
    2. UNITY OF THE
    BIBLE Though authored by many different men in different stages
    of history, no book contradicts another book. The writings
    of one book are more clearly understood by comparing
    them with the writings of another book. Even though
    Moses wrote at Sinai, separated from John the Revelator on
    the Isle of Patmos by 1600 years, we often compare
    Genesis with Revelation and find continuity of thought.
    The Old Testament prophecies are marvelously and
    accurately fulfilled in the New Testament. Agnostics who
    have tried to refute this unity have found
    3. LANGUAGE OF THE
    BIBLE
    B. The Old
    and Now
    Testament
    MAIN DIVISION
    OF THE BIBLE
    MEANING OF TESTAMENT

    The word TESTAMENT "covenant", or "


    agreement". The word testment comes from latin
    word testamentum which means " a witness "
    C. The Order of
    the books And
    The Division
    The present arrangement of the books of the bible is in part
    chronological, largely historical, in the sequence and in part
    logical arranged by type of material.

    The Hebrew scripture were arranged in three parts as follows:


    • The Law of Moses
    • The Prophets
    • The psalms or other writings
    The common divisions into which the thirty- nine books of the
    Old Testament are grouped are as follows:
    The first divisions of Scipture were of the Pentateuch which
    began as early as 586 B.C. These divisions and others which
    followed were designed to aid in the oral reading of the
    Scriptures. The Greeks made divisions around 250 A.D. The
    actual chapter divisions date back to about 350 AD During the
    thirteenth century these sections were changed into the modern
    chapter divisions by Stephen Langton, a professor at the
    University of Paris (Geisler & Nix, A General Introduction to
    the Bible).
    The Bible is divided into 1189 chapters: 929 in
    the Old Testaments and 260 in the New
    Testament. The Bible is divided into 31,163
    verses. Psalm 119 is the longest chapter. Psalm
    117 is the shortest chapter and also the middle
    chapter of the Bible.

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