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

• 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 an illiterate
• The Bible is some story right

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 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 Testament

The Gospels

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

History

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

Letters

• These were written by Paul to the new churches.