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 ...

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 ...

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 ...