![]() Bullinger has hit the nail on the head! (Patton JW. Bullinger, The Companion Bible (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Bible Publishers, 1974), p. All theories based on this order rest on human authority, and are thus without any true foundation.” (E.W. This order, therefore, depends on the arbitrary judgment of one man, Jerome. Bullinger in his Companion Bible made this bold statement: “ Our English Bibles follow the order as given in the Latin Vulgate. ![]() Even Josephus, in Book 1, Section 8 of his famous work, Antiquities of the Jews, recognized “only 22 books.”Ĭoncerning the New Testament, E.W. The books and arrangement or order of the books has never been lost. And to this day the Jewish translations contain 22 Old Testament books. 391 Jerome said the following, “ As, then, there are twenty-two elementary characters by means of which we write in Hebrew … so we reckon twenty-two books, by which, as by the alphabet of the doctrine of God, a righteous man is instructed…” 1 Yes, Jerome understood that the Hebrew Old Testament contained 22 books coinciding with the 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, not 39. He had a rationale, a wrong rationale, for making these changes! Regardless, the Tradition lives on today. Of a truth once a tradition becomes established, it is difficult to change. 382 and 405, with his “new” arrangement of the books for both the Old and New Testaments, became the standard for Protestant scholars and translators. His Latin Vulgate translation, written between A.D. The man most responsible for what became our traditional Bible of sixty-six books was the Catholic theologian, Jerome. He seems to have been influenced by the order in Septuagint (a Greek, not Hebrew, language Bible). ![]() Jerome put together what is considered to be the 'traditional order' as his order has been kept for many centuries. The order we see the books in the Bible currently traditionally listed was put together by the Catholic saint and doctor of their church, Jerome. (A short related video is also available: Original Order of the Books of the Bible.) The 'Traditional Order' So some have wondered about the original order of the books found in the Bible. The commonly placed order is not the original one. There are thirty-nine books in the Old Testament and twenty-seven in the New Testament. The Original Order of the Books of the Bible The Original Order of the Books of the Bible
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