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To: Forest Keeper
The designation "Historical Books" is a modern designation.

Kings and Chronicles are both included in the Jewish Canon. Kings was part of the "Former Prophets" and Chronicles was part of "The Writings". I probably stated that Chronicles was part of the prophets, but was mistaken. It appears that it was part of the writings (which was dominated by the Psalms but included much more).

Calling something "The Historical Books" was a modern designation.

CRI has a good chart to show the differences...

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Jewish

Catholic/Orthodox

Protestant

Torah

Pentateuch

Pentateuch

Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

Prophets (Former)

Historical Books

Historical Books

Joshua
Judges

1-2 Samuel (1-2 Kings) 1
1-2 Kings (3-4 Kings)

Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1-2 Kings (1-2 Samuel) 1
3-4 Kings (1-2 Kings)
1-2 Chronicles
Ezra (1 Esdras) 2
Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 2
Tobit
Judith
Esther*
    adds: Additions to Esther
1-2 Maccabees 3

Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1-2 Samuel (1-2 Kings) 1
1-2 Kings (3-4 Kings)
1-2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah


Esther

Prophets (Latter)

   

Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Book of the Twelve 4

   

The Writings

Wisdom Books

Poetic Books

Psalms
Proverbs
Job
Song of Songs
Ruth
Lamentations
Ecclesiastes
Esther
Daniel
Ezra
Nehemiah
1-2 Chronicles

Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Songs







Wisdom of Solomon
Ecclesiasticus 5

Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Songs

 

Prophets

Prophets

 

Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Baruch
Ezekiel
Daniel*
  adds: Song of the Three Hebrew   Children,
  Bel and the Dragon,
Susanna
The Twelve 4

Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations

Ezekiel
Daniel




The Twelve 4

1 In the Greek tradition (the Septuagint and some modern traditions that follow the Eastern church tradition), 1 and 2 Samuel are combined with the books of Kings, known as 1-4 Kings. In most Protestant canons of the Western Church, the books are known as 1-2 Samuel (1-2 Kings) and 1-2 Kings (3-4 Kings).

2 The books of Ezra and Nehemiah were originally combined into a single book. The combined book, Ezra-Nehemiah, was sometimes referred to as Esdras (Hb: Ezra, Gk: Esdras) but called 1 Esdras in the early Greek translations to distinguish it from another book from the same period (containing 2 Chron 35-36, Neh 7:38-8:12, plus other material not found in the Old Testament) that was also known as Esdras. While this second book was sometimes also called 1 Esdras it later came to be known as 2 Esdras. Still a third pseudepigraphic book of apocalyptic visions entitled Esdras was circulated a little later and was also know as 2 Esdras. After Ezra-Nehemiah was split into two books, Ezra was known as 1 Esdras, Nehemiah as 2 Esdras, the expanded OT version book as 3 Esdras, and the apocalyptic book as 4 Esdras.

3 There are also a 3 and 4 Maccabees, but these were never considered to be biblical books. The Greek Orthodox Church does not accept 1 and 2 Maccabees.

4 The Book of the Twelve contains the remaining 12 prophetic books: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. These are sometimes called the Minor Prophets in Christian tradition due to their shorter length, while the longer prophetic books are called the Major Prophets.

5 Also known as the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira or Sirach.

-Dennis Bratcher, Copyright © 2006, Dennis Bratcher, All Rights Reserved
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11,177 posted on 02/28/2007 12:15:12 PM PST by Blogger
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To: Blogger
Thank you my friend! That's a great table. So then, when we compare this to Luke 24:44, would we say that the Law is the Torah, the Prophets includes former and latter, and that Psalms includes all of the writings? I wasn't sure if Psalms includes other books.
11,178 posted on 02/28/2007 1:08:28 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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