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  1. A brief description of how the Bible came to be: the order of the books of the Old Testament and the New Testament, the deuterocanonical books, who gave the titles to the books, who made the divisions of it in chapters and verses

  1. A brief description comparing the four canonical Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John): date, place of composition, author, idea of Jesus Christ, audience).

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Running head: THE ORDER OF THE BOOKS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

The order of the books in the Old Testament
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THE ORDER OF THE BOOKS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

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THE ORDER OF THE BOOKS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
The term bible comes from the Greek word bibilia, which means “the books” since the
bible is a collection of books with teachings that Christians used and believe that they were
written by people inspired by the spirit of God (Dawkins, 2016). In the Jewish community, the
community refers to the collection of these books as the Miqra which generally refers to “a
reading” or Tanak which is an acronym representing three distinct divisions of the collection of
the books namely, Torah (Law), Nevi’im (Prophets), and Kethuvim (Writings). Christians as
well as the Jews believe that the people of God first passed the word of God through the word of
mouth from which the bible was eventually written and composed from these teachings. Also,
due to the death of the apostles and the eye-witnesses of Christ, written documents were required
for current and future uses. In this regard, these teachings were put in writing to compare with
the current life situations of the Christians as per the teachings of God. In addition, the term
scripture has occasionally been used to refer to such writings in diverse Christian communities.
Also, while referring to the bible, the wo...


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