Bible Basics

The Bible is the oldest book.
It is a collection of books.

It was written over a period of thousands of years, by many different writers.

All of the writers agree over the message given and claim that they wrote down the word of God.

Bible Facts:
~ Holy Bible means a 'separate book'
~ 66 individual books
~ Old Testament: 39 books
~ New Testament: 27 books
~ Over 40 Writers: kings and peasants, doctors and fishermen, princes and herdsmen, poets and labourers, rich and poor, educated and illiterate
~ Written over a period of 1600 years
~ 2,930 characters in 1,551 pages

The Old Testament

The Law
~ Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
~ 'The Books Of Moses'. In the hebrew scripture these books are called the Torah.

Historical Books
~ These books describe the historyof israel from the death of Moses to the establishment of the kingdom under Saul, David and Solomon;

Poetic Books
~ Jobs, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiates and Song of Solomon.

The Prophets
 ~ Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, The opening verses of these books will usually say at which period of history the prophets preached.

The New Testament

The Gospels
~ Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
~ The Gospel writers tell us about the birth of jesus, his ministry and teaching, his crucifixion and resurrection.

History
~ Acts
~ The full name is 'The Acts of the Apostles' and the book describes the spread of Christianity and the missionary journeys of Paul.

Letters
~ Romans, I and II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians,Colossians, I and II Thessalonians.
~ These were written by Paul to the new churches.