The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has the largest Old Testament collection of any tradition, having 46 books in total compared to the 39 of the Hebrew Bible. Photograph of a Torah reading, by Jay ...

The Bible was written by approximately 40 people over 1,500 years. Below is a timeline showing the periods when each book was written: The books of the Old Testament were written over a long span ...

The Old Testament books ... of the Biblical books are of rather recent origin. The Jews divided their sacred books into sections. The chapter division, as found in the Bible today, dates from ...

His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible ... phrase "Old Testament" to refer to these sacred books ...