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The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a canonical collection of texts
sacred in Judaism and Christianity. There is no single "Bible" and
many Bibles with varying contents exist.[1] The term Bible is shared between
Judaism and Christianity, although the contents of each of their collections of
canonical texts is not the same. Different religious groups include different
books within their Biblical canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide
or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, contains
twenty-four books divided into three parts: the five books of the Torah
("teaching" or "law"), the Nevi'im ("prophets"),
and the Ketuvim ("writings"). Christian Bibles range from the
sixty-six books of the Protestant canon to the eighty-one books of the
Ethiopian Orthodox Church canon. The first part of Christian Bibles is the Old
Testament, which contains, at minimum, the twenty-four books of the Hebrew
Bible divided into thirty-nine books and ordered differently from the Hebrew
Bible. The Catholic Church and Eastern Christian churches also hold certain
deuterocanonical books and passages to be part of the Old Testament canon. The
second part is the New Testament, containing twenty-seven books: the four
Canonical gospels, Acts of the Apostles, twenty-one Epistles or didactic
letters, and the Book of Revelation.
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