Part Two
Bibliology: 13 THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
Bibliology: 13 THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
The Torah,
of course, consisted of the first five books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The Nebhiim consisted on the Former Prophets:
Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel (considered as one book), and 1 and 2 Kings (one
book), and the Latter Prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor
Prophets (considered as one book), Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah,
Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. The Kethubhirn,
called in the Greek the Hagiographa, included eleven writings: Psalms,
Proverbs, Job, the five Meghilloth or rolls: Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations,
Ecclesiastes, and Esther; Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah (one book), and 1 and 2
Chronicles (one book). This makes a total of 24 books. There were other combinations
of the books that reckoned the total to be 22 and 27. This ancient Hebrew canon
is identical in content with the Protestant Old Testament, but the order of the
books was different. The order was the same from Genesis through 2 Kings. Next
in order came Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah,
Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and these were
followed by the Hagiographa: Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth,
Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles. The
order of the books in our Old Testament was derived from the Septuagint.
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