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How Numerics Establish the Order of Books B y Rev. Ivan Panin i i f ! HE Bible has ' sixty-six books, of which some assign themselves to some author by name ; others are anonymous; Those which assign themselves either wholly or in part to certain writers are às follows: Exodus; Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy ascribe them selves, at least in part, to Moses; or are quoted as the works of Moses in other parts of the Bible. Isaiah, Jer emiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve ' sò-called minor prophets ascribe themselves to the writers; whose names they re spectively ■ bear. Psalms ascribes itself'largely to David, and is referred to elsewhere in the Bible as the work of David. Proverbs arid Song' of Songs ascribe them selves'to Solomon, and Ecclesiastes ascribes: itself to “the Son of David.” Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah ascribe themselves to these respective writers, James, 1 and 2 Peter, and Jude, to their respective writers of the same name. The epistles of Paul, with the exception of He brews, ascribe themselves to Paul. Revelation 'ascribes itself to John. The anonymous books aré thus: Gen esis, Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Job, Ruth, Lamentations,-Esther,.. 1 and 2 Chronicles, Mat thew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, 1, 2 and 3 John, and Hebrews. O f the writers named as the authors of , the books of the Bible some have ascribed to them more than one book. Thus Moses has four ;, Solomon, three ; Peter, two; Paul, thirteen; the other writers have only one book ascribed to each, namely: the sixteen Prophets, properly so-called; David, Ezra, Nehemiah, James, Jude and John. The books of the Bible are in the Hebrew Received Text and in the Greek Text.of Westcott and Hort (the two standard texts in the original languages) arranged differently from the English Bible. In the English the arrangemen tis as follows: The Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Dan iel, the twelve Minor Prophets, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, the thirteen. Epistles of Paul, Hebrews, James, Peter, 1, 2 and 3 John, Jude, Revelation. The order in the original languages is as follows : 1. Genesis 18. Obadiah 2. Exodus 19. Jonah 3. Leviticus 20. Micah 4. Numbers 21. Nahum 5. Deuteronomy 22. Habakkuk 6. Joshua 23. Zephaniah 7. Judges 24. Haggai 8. 1 Samuel 25. Zechariah 9. 2 Samuel 26. Malachi 10. 1 Kings 27. Psalms L 11. 2 Kings 28. Proverbs 12. Isaiah 29. Job 13. Jeremiah . .30. Song of Songs 14. Ezekiel 31. Ruth 15. Hosea 32. Lamentations 16. Joel 33. Ecclesiastes 17. Amos 34. Esther
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