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Christ Falls

It's All Obvious, or "Think!"

Jewish and Christian Bibles: A Comparative Chartby Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D.



Introduction: Although the "New Testament" contains the same twenty-seven books for almost all Christians, there are some major and important differences between the "Hebrew Bible" (HB) used by Jews and different versions of the "Old Testament" (OT) used by various Christian churches and denominations: The foundational texts are different: Jewish Bibles are based on the HB; the OT section in Christian Bibles is arranged according to the order of books in the "Septuagint" (LXX), the ancient Greek version of the Jewish scriptures;
however, the translations of individual OT books in Christian Bibles are now usually based on the texts of the HB.
The total number of biblical books is different:
Jews count 24, Protestants 39, Catholics 46, Orthodox Christians up to 53;
certain books of the HB are subdivided in the LXX; e.g., "The Twelve" minor prophets are considered one book in the HB, while the LXX and Christian Bibles count these as twelve separate books;
the LXX contains several additional books not found in the HB; Orthodox and Catholic Christians regard these additional books as part of the OT canon (calling them the "Deuterocanonical Books"), while Jews and most Protestant Christians do not (calling them the "Apocrypha").