Bible Basics

The Bible

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 books in total
• Over 40 writers: kings and peasants, doctors and fishermen, princes and herdsmen, poets and labourers, rich and poor, educated and illiterate.

Old Testament

The Law

• Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
• "The Books of Moses". In the Hebrew Scripture these books are called Torah.

• Historical

• These books describe the history of Israel from the death of Moses to the establishment of the kingdom under Saul, David and Solomon.

• Poetic Books
• Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes 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 Teastament

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 missionay journeys of Paul.

Letters

• Romens, 1 and 11 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 11 Thessalonians.
• These were written by Paul to the new churches.