The King James Bible : The Canons Of The Bible

     The Jewish Bible or Tanakh, is the sacred book that interprets history as the Jews have experienced it. Although it is proper to think of the Bible as a single book of scriptures, it is more accurate to describe it as a library of books assembled under three major headings. The most important is the Torah, which means “devine instruction and guidance.” Torah is also known as the Five Books of Moses; the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. The second portion is the Nevi’im meaning writings of the Prophets. The third section of Tanakh is referred to as Kethuvim or “the Writings.”

This first volume contains 39 books, and 929 chapters: almost identical to the Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible. Interpretation of the scriptures are more about God ‘The Father’, himself, but lays the foundation for the second volume the New Testament. Originally written in Greek about 45 AD, this volume contains 27 books and 260 chapters. Its scriptures tell the story of the life of Jesus, believed by Christians to be the Messiah, Son of God in human form, and sent by God to fulfill the promises and prophesies of the Old Testament.

The Bible is known as ‘authoritative written source’ (Bowley, 1999) and is a library of 66 books and is made of two parts: Old Testament (39 books) and New Testament (27 books). The Bible was only officially put together around the third century. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and Aramaic while the New Testament was written in Greek. During the Reformation, scholars wanted to allow everyone to read the Bible in their own languages (Beck et al, 2000). Now, the Bible is written in over 1600 languages. However, Jewish people only read the Torah in Hebrew. The Old Testament is similar to the Torah where the books are exactly the same.

Unlike Mythology, The Bible’s narratives are actual events that took place dating back to the beginning of time. The conception of The Holy Bible’s compilation started thousands of years ago in the land of Egypt. Initially, The Old Testament Scriptures were written in the Hebrew language, however, they were later translated to the Greek. At the onset of The New Testament writings, they were originally recorded in the Greek language. Forty men transcribed the voice of God which resulted in sixty-six books of The Holy Bible. The Holy Scriptures explained the creations, formation of the world, God, God’s chosen peoples, sin, and the plan of salvation as well.

The New Testament contains twenty-seven books, written in Greek, by fifteen or sixteen different authors, who were addressing other Christian individuals or communities between the years 50 and 120 C.E. With this in mind it makes it very difficult to know whether any of these books was written by Jesus’ own disciples.

Canon is a term used frequently throughout the first chapter which is defined by the textbook as a normative list of authoritative texts that function as scripture. The Hebrew Bible is arranged into three parts which are named Law or Torah, Prophets or Nevi’im, and writings or Ketuvim. The Hebrew Bible in essence is the same as the Christian Old Testament except in a Jewish perspective. The Old Testament in its simplest definition is the first main division of the Christian Bible but in actuality it is much more than that and is comprised of 39 books. Before the invention of the printing press scribes copied manuscripts which were handwritten. Scripture refers to writing from a sacred text.

The first four books of the New Testament are known as the Gospels. These books tell us about the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. They are named for their authors: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The earliest descriptions of these books are from Justin Martyr in 155 AD which he calls them “memoirs” (Elwell and Yarbrough, 56). These are more of a biographical account of the life of Jesus. In these books God offers salvation through His son; a call to faith in light of the coming judgment.

In order for us to know that the 39 OT books are the only ones that are to be in the canon, the Jewish council drew up a list of inspired books in the late first century of our era; they are actually called canonical books as soon as they are written. Some books, like Esther, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs and others, were disputed for a time. (Believer’s Bible Commentary: 1985)

The Bible is the Christian scriptures, consisting of the 66 books of the Old and New Testament, which contains God’s words. The Bible teaches of God’s action in the world, and his purpose with all creation. The Bible is the work of over forty human authors and writing it took place over sixteen centuries. It is a collection of 66 books all written in different styles and all containing the message that God desired us to have (“What is the Bible”). There are an estimated 2.2 billion Christians around the world (Chappell). Between Christians and others who study the Bible, whether other religions or academics, the Bible has consistently been the most printed, purchased, read, and popular book in the world.

Christians follow the bible to guide their way towards Jesus Christ. It is made up of sixty-six different books which are divided up into two different sections: the old testament and the new testament. With inspiration and influence of the Holy spirit and a time span of thirteen centuries, contributions from over 40 different authors were mended into one sacred book. These authors ranged from farmers to kings and shepards to physicians, people from all different walks of life have stories in the Bible (“Facts about the Bible.”) It gets it’s name from the Koine Greek phrase, la biblia, which translates to “the book” in English (“Why The Bible Is

The book of James is the fifty-nine book of the Bible. It consist of many inspiring verse that make me become a better person. The three most remarkable memorize that I learn from the book of James is God want me to don’t look down on poor people. God want me to use my tongue to praise Him. God want me to be patience and wait until the hope comes.

Often times when discussing the Old Testament it is commonly considered as synonymous to the Hebrew Bible, although there are significant difference between the two. Most Protestant versions of the Old Testament have exactly the same books as the Hebrew Bible, though in a slightly different order (Harris, 1980, p. 2). In the Jerusalem Bible, the English edition of the Old Testament, the Apocrypha are integrated with the other books of the Hebrew Bible. The main differences that will be focused on are the structure of the Hebrew Bible, the three-part Hebrew Bible, and original written language.

The KJV Bible also portrays man’s desire for meaning in life through the existence of one God and his human-like traits. This text can reveal the significance of how mankind find a purpose in life because just like the ancient Greeks, they believe that there is something similar, but superior to themselves. This is used as motivation to do the right thing. This gave Christians a relatable role model to honour to so they can strive to be the “perfect” man. While still making God out to be perfect, the author(s) may have portrayed God to be akin to humankind to again (like the Theogony) make him seem relatable for humans.

The first 39 books of the larger work called the Bible, is called the Old Testament. The Bible itself is arguably the best selling and most read book of all time, yet it’s well known to be quite challenging to read through and understand. The Old Testament portion of the Bible, notably the most difficult portion of the Bible for most to study and follow, yields 39 books from multiple authors, and spans over 4000 years of crucial world and church history. If that were not enough to take on, the Old Testament comes our way through multiple styles of authorship and formats, including but not limited to, books of history, law, proverbs, ethics,

During the early history of the church, there was no such thing as a New Testament “canon.” The selection of books that were to be included or excluded from the texts used by the church was the responsibility of each individual church body, and thus varied greatly from location to location. Because there was no canon – (books considered