>
>
> On a tangent there, I was asked recently what books *were* in the
> "Jewish
> Bible" and I didn't know. Is it the entirety of the Old Testament?
> How
> about the deuterocanonical works (I would think Maccabees would be in
> there,
> but I don't know for sure...) Can anyone help?
It depends what you mean by the "Old Testament". This is a Christian
term, contrasting with the "New Testament". Jews of course do not see
matters in the same way. My Hebrew Bible is divided into three
sections: The Law, the Prophets and the Writings.
The Law (Torah): Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (I
give the familiar Greek names; in Hebrew the books are known simply by
their opening words).
The Prophets: Subdivided into the "Former Prophets" and the "Latter
Prophets". This refers to their position in the Bible, not to their
chronology.
The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, II
Kings.
The Latter Prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezechiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos,
Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zachariah,
Malachi.
The Writings: Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth,
Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, I and II
Chronicles.
But no doubt any Jewish scholar could explain the matter more clearly.
Oriens.
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