HISTORY OF THE HOLY BIBLE

https://www.lirelabible.net/histoire.php#2.A

INTRODUCTION

40 authors wrote the Bible over a period of 1,500 years. These Bible writers wrote as they were inspired by the Holy Spirit (see 2 Timothy 3:16-17).

Moses was the first person to write portions of Scripture while John, the disciple of Jesus, was the last. Other famous people who wrote the Bible include: Daniel, Peter, Paul, Jonah, Isaiah, Solomon and David.

The number of books in the Bible is : 

66 Books or 73 Books if we inclue the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament.

• The Old Testament includes : 39 Books or 46 Books if we inclue the Deuterocanonical books  of the Old Testament.

• The New Testament includes : 27 Books.

Ultimately, above the human authors, the Bible was written by God. Second Timothy 3:16 tells us that the Bible was “breathed out” by God. God superintended the human authors of the Bible so that, while using their own writing styles and personalities, they still recorded exactly what God intended. The Bible was not dictated by God, but it was perfectly guided and entirely inspired by Him.

Humanly speaking, the Bible was written by approximately 40 men of diverse backgrounds over the course of 1500 years. Isaiah was a prophet, Ezra was a priest, Matthew was a tax-collector, John was a fisherman, Paul was a tentmaker, Moses was a shepherd, Luke was a physician. Despite being penned by different authors over 15 centuries, the Bible does not contradict itself and does not contain any errors. The authors all present different perspectives, but they all proclaim the same one true God, and the same one way of salvation—Jesus Christ (John 14:6; Acts 4:12). Few of the books of the Bible specifically name their author. 

There were undoubtedly very early texts which were partly written, partly transmitted orally, we cannot decide precisely. 

We know that writing existed long before Moses, in various forms: pictograms in Mesopotamia, in Sumer (the country of Ur, from which Abraham came out) from 3000 BC, hieroglyphics in Egypt from the beginnings of the Egyptian civilization.

Alphabetical writing probably appeared in Phenicia or in the Sinai region ... just before the time of Moses (circa 1500 BC).

But anyway, the actual Bible text begins with Moses. He was inspired by the Lord to transcribe these possible early materials, and the new revelations he received. The biblical text, that which is inspired by God and which is authoritative, is indeed to be distinguished from the means used, from the state of mind or even from whether or not the author understands the depth of what he is writing. 

Thus Balaam, who, however, would probably not have wanted the blessing of God to be on Israel, he too, very indirectly, provided materials to Moses, who, himself, received from God the full inspiration to use them (Nb 23). 

In every age, the people of Israel have likewise recognized that certain prophetic, historical or poetic writings are in fact part of the same book: the book of God. 

The BIBLE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible 

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of religious texts, writings, or scriptures sacred in Judaism and Christianity.  

Those books that are included in the Bible by a tradition or group are called canonical, indicating that the tradition/group views the collection as the true representation of God's word and will. Believers also generally consider the Bible to be a product of divine inspiration. 

The texts of the Bible include theologically-focused historical accounts:

• hymns, 

• prayers, 

• proverbs, 

• parables, 

• didactic letters, 

• admonitions, 

• essays, 

• poetry, and

•  prophecies. 

the writing of the biblical texts has ranged between: 

• the 8th century BC. AD and the 2nd century BC. AD for the Old Testament 

• and the second half of the first century, or even the beginning of the second century for the New Testament.

The HEBREW Bible or « TaNaKh » (תנ״ך), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures / texts, including the Torah (Torah = First five (5) books of Moses (or Pentateuch)). 

These texts are almost exclusively in Biblical Hebrew, with a few passages in Biblical Aramaic (in the books of Daniel and Ezra, the verse Jeremiah 10:11,^[2] and some single words).  

1. Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law"), has a range of meanings  --  It can most specifically mean the Pentateuch (or the "Five (5) Books of Moses") of the Hebrew Bible, namely (in their commonly used names) Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. This is known in the Jewish tradition as the Written Torah. Printed versions (rather than scrolls) of the Torah are often called "Chamisha Chumshei Torah"" (חמישה חומשי תורה‎ "Five fifth-sections of the Torah") and informally a "Chumash". Interspersed in the narrative are the specific teachings (religious obligations and civil laws) given explicitly (i.e. Ten Commandments) or implicitly embedded in the narrative (as in Exodus 12 and 13 laws of the celebration of Passover). 

2. Nevi'im (נְבִיאִים‎ Nəḇī'īm)  ("Prophets") -- is the second main division of the Tanakh, between the Torah and Ketuvim 

3. Ketuvim  (or Kəṯûḇîm) (in Biblical Hebrew: כְּתוּבִים‎ "writings") is the third and final section of the Tanakh. The Ketuvim are believed to have been written under the Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit) but with one level less authority than that of prophecy.^[39] 

The name « TaNaKh » (Hebrew: תנ"ך‎) reflects the threefold division of the Hebrew Scriptures ,  T(orah)N(evi'im)K(etouvim)

« TaNaKh » = T(orah)N(evi'im)K(etuvim). 

• T(orah) ("Teaching"), 

• N(evi'im) ("Prophets") and 

• K(etuvim) ("Writings")

Moses wrote the Pentateuch ("Torah") (The Pentateuch is among Christians the set of the first five (5) books of the Bible. For the Jews, these five (5) books constitute the Torah), and the people immediately take, led by God, the meaning of the importance of these texts, words of God. 

(Pentateuch

   :  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentateuch_(disambiguation) ) 

Chronology of the Pentateuch (the first five (5) books of Moses (The "Torah") )

The year 966 BC. J.C., that of the construction of the temple, will serve as the starting point for this table. According to 1 Kings 6 v. 1, the exit from Egypt would then be in 1446 BC. J.C., and verse 40 of Exodus 12 allows us to say that Jacob, aged 130, came down to Egypt in 1876 BC. J.C. (comp. Gen. 47 v. 1, 9).

Source https://www.bibliquest.net/Remmers/Remmers-Chronologie_biblique.htm

Hebrew Bible : "Hebrew" refers to the original language of the books, but it may also be taken as referring to the Jews of the Second Temple era and their descendants, who preserved the transmission of the Masoretic Text up to the present day.^[17]

The Masoretic Text is the authoritative Hebrew text of the Hebrew Bible. It defines the books of the Jewish canon, and also the precise letter-text of these biblical books, with their vocalization and accentuation.

The Hebrew Bible includes small portions in Aramaic (mostly in the books of Daniel and Ezra), written and printed in Aramaic square-script, which was adopted as the Hebrew alphabet after the Babylonian exile.

TaNaKh :

1. Torah (תּוֹרָה) - "teaching" (also known as the Pentateuch or as the  : "Five (5) Books of Moses" ) is the first (1st) part of the TaNaKh :   

   1. Beresheeth (בראשית)  (Genesis),

   2. Shemot (שמות)  (Exodus),

   3. Vayikra (ויקרא)  (Leviticus),

   4. Bamidbar (במדבר)  (Numbers) et

   5.  Devarim (דברים)  (Deuteronomy).

2. Nevi'im (נְבִיאִים‎ ) (or Nəḇî'îm) - « Prophets  » :

   1. The « Former Prophets » : The Former Prophets are the books Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings. They contain narratives that begin immediately after the death of Moses with the divine appointment of Joshua as his successor, who then leads the people of Israel into the Promised Land, and end with the release from imprisonment of the last king of Judah. Treating Samuel and Kings as single books, they cover: 

      • the Book of Joshua(Joshua's conquest of the land of Canaan),
      • the Book of Judges(struggle of the people to possess the land),
      • the Books of Samuel(1 & 2) people's request to God to give them a king so that they can occupy the land in the face of their enemies)
      • the Books of Kings(1 & 2) (possession of the land under the divinely appointed kings of the House of David, ending in conquest and foreign exile)

   2. The « Latter Prophets » : The Latter Prophets are divided into two (2) groups : 

      1. the "Major prophets" : The term "major" has nothing to do with the achievement or importance of the prophets, rather the length of the books. In comparison to the books of the Twelve Minor Prophets, whose books are short and grouped together into one single book in the Hebrew Bible, these books are much longer  (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel). The Major Prophets is a grouping of books in the Christian Old Testament that does not occur in the Hebrew Bible. All of these books are traditionally regarded as authored by a prophet such as Jeremiah, Isaiah, Daniel, and Ezekiel.

      2. the "Twelve Minor Prophets" : The name "Minor Prophets" goes back apparently to St. Augustine,^[1] who distinguished the twelve (12) shorter prophetic books as prophetae minores from the four longer books of the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. The Twelve Minor Prophets collected into a single book. occasionally Book of the Twelve, is the last book of the Nevi'im, the second major division of the Jewish Tanakh. The collection is broken up to form twelve individual books in the Christian Old Testament, one for each of the prophets.

         1. the "Major prophets :

            • Isaiah,

            • Jeremiah

            • Ezekiel  

         2. the "Twelve (12) Minor Prophets" :

            • Hoseaor Hoshea [הושע]
            • Joelor Yo'el [יואל]
            • Amos[עמוס]
            • Obadiahor Ovadyah [עובדיה]
            • Jonahor Yonah [יונה]
            • Micahor Mikhah [מיכה]
            • Nahumor Nachum [נחום]
            • Habakkukor Habaquq [חבקוק]
            • Zephaniahor Tsefania [צפניה]
            • Haggaior Haggai [חגי]
            • ZechariahZekharia [זכריה]
            • Malachior Malakhi [מלאכי]

3. Ketuvim   (writings ) :

   • The following list presents the books of Ketuvim in the order they appear in most printed editions. It also divides them into three subgroups based on the distinctiveness of Sifrei Emet and Hamesh Megillot.
     1. The three (3) Poetic Books (Sifrei Emet)
        • Tehillim (Psalms) תְהִלִּים
        • Mishlei (Book of Proverbs) מִשְלֵי
        • Iyyôbh (Book of Job) אִיּוֹב
     2. The Five (5) Megillot (Hamesh Megillot)
        • Shīr Hashīrīm (Song of Songs) שִׁיר הַשִׁירִים (Passover)
        • Rūth (Book of Ruth) רוּת (Feast of Weeks)
        • Eikhah (Lamentations) איכה (Ninth of Avor theDay of Atonement) [also called Kinnot in Hebrew]
        • Qōheleth (Ecclesiastes) קהלת (Feast of Tabernacles)
        • Estēr (Book of Esther) אֶסְתֵר (Feast of Lots)
     3. Other books
        • Dānî’ēl (Book of Daniel) דָּנִיֵּאל
        • ‘Ezrā (Book of Ezra–Book of Nehemiah) עזרא
        • Divrei ha-Yamim (Chronicles) דברי הימים

The Jewish textual tradition never finalized the order of the books in Ketuvim.  

The original texts of the Tanakh were almost entirely written in Hebrew; about one per cent is written in Aramaic.

The Hebrew Bible is translated into ancient Greek in Alexandria: the Septuagint.

This version — the Septuagint — is used at the turn of the fifth century to complete the Latin translation of the Bible — the Vulgate — from Hebrew.

• Septuagint : Septuagint (in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Koine Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible, various biblical apocrypha, and deuterocanonical books.^[3] The first five (5) books of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Torah or the Pentateuch, were translated in the mid-3rd century BC. The remaining books of the Greek Old Testament are presumably translations of the 2nd century BC.^[4][5][6]  ).

  The Translation of the ('Seventy') derives from the story recorded in the Letter of Aristeas that the Hebrew Torah was translated into Greek at the request of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285–247 BCE) by 70 Jewish scholarsor, according to later tradition, 72:six (6)scholars from each of theTwelve Tribes of Israel, who independently produced identical translations.^{[citation needed]} The miraculous character of the Aristeas legend might indicate the esteem and disdain in which the translation was held at the time; Greek translations of Hebrew scriptures were in circulation among the Alexandrian Jews.^[7] Egyptian papyri from the period have led most scholars to view as probable Aristeas's dating of the translation of the Pentateuch to the third century BCE. The text of the Greek Old Testament is quoted more often than the original Hebrew Bible text in the Greek New Testament^[10][11] (particularly the Pauline epistles)^[12] by the Apostolic Fathers, and later by the Greek Church Fathers.                                                    

(Septuagint - For more information :   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint)

• Vulgate : Vulgate is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible. It was to become the Catholic Church's officially promulgated Latin version of the Bible during the 16th century as the Sixtine Vulgate then as the Clementine Vulgate; the Vulgate is still presently used in the Latin Church.

The Catholic Church affirmed the Vulgate as its official Latin Bible at the Council of Trent (1545–1563), though there was no authoritative edition at that time.^[2] The Clementine edition of the Vulgate became the standard Bible text of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, and remained so until 1979 when the Nova Vulgata was promulgated.

Terminology

The term "Vulgate" is used to designate the Latin Bible only since the 16th century. An example of the use of this word in this sense at the time is the title of the 1538 edition of the Latin Bible by Erasmus: Biblia utriusque testamenti juxta vulgatam translationem.^[3]

(Vulgate - For more informations :  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate)

The CHRISTIAN Bible : knows several canons according to eras and denominations. The Christian Bible is made up of two (2) parts:

1. Old Testament ( " OT " ) : (often abbreviated OT) is the first (1st) division of the Christian Bible. The Old Testament stresses the special relationship between God and his chosen people, Israel, but includes instructions for a proselytes as well.  This relationship is expressed in the biblical covenant (contract)^{[25][26][27][28][29][30]} between the two, received by Moses. The law codes in books such as Exodus and especially Deuteronomy are the terms of the contract: Israel swears faithfulness to God, and God swears to be Israel's special protector and supporter. ^[24]The Jewish Study Bible denies that covenant means contract.^[31]Further themes in the Old Testament include salvation, redemption, divine judgment, obedience and disobedience, faith and faithfulness, among others. Throughout there is a strong emphasis on ethics and ritual purity, both of which God demands, although some of the prophets and wisdom writers seem to question this, arguing that God demands social justice above purity, and perhaps does not even care about purity at all. The Old Testament is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or « TaNaKh », a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites.^[1]  The Hebrew Bible shares most of its content with its ancient Greek translation, the Septuagint, which in turn was the base for the Christian Old Testament. The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors produced over a period of centuries.^[2]. Among Christian denominations there is some disagreement about what should be included in the canon, primarily about the biblical apocrypha, a list of works that are regarded with varying levels of respect or recognition. Christians traditionally divide the Old Testament into four sections: a) the first five books or Pentateuch (corresponds to the Jewish Torah or first five books of Moses); b) the history books telling the history of the Israelites, from their conquest of Canaan to their defeat and exile in Babylon; c) the poetic and "Wisdom books" dealing, in various forms, with questions of good and evil in the world; d) and the books of the biblical prophets, warning of the consequences of turning away from God. The books that compose the Old Testament canon and their order and names differ between various branches of Christianity (depending of the Deuteorocanonical Books (Apocraphy)). The canons of the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches comprise up to 49 books; the Catholic canon comprises 46 books; and the most common Protestant canon comprise 39 books.^[3] 

2. The New Testament^{[note 1]} (NT): is the second (2nd) division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. The Christian New Testament is a collection of writings by early Christians, believed to be Jewish disciples of Christ, written in 1st-century While the Old Testament canon varies somewhat between different Christian denominations, the 27-book (27) canon of the New Testament has been almost universally recognized within Christianity since at least Late Antiquity. Thus, in almost all Christian traditions today, the New Testament consists of 27 books:  

1. Four (4) canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)

2. The Acts of the Apostles

3. Fourteen (14) Pauline epistles

4. Seven (7) general epistles, and

5. The Book of Revelation.

N.B. :

The Christian Old Testament contains seven (7) books that are part of the Christian Old Testament but that are not part of the Hebrew canon, these books are sometimes described as deuterocanonical books.

Deuterocanonical books

The deuterocanonical books (from the Greek meaning "belonging to the second canon") are books and passages considered by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East to be canonical books of the Old Testament, but that Protestant denominations do not regard as part of the biblical canon. They date from 300 BC–AD 100, mostly from 200 BC–AD 70, before the definite separation of the Christian church from Judaism.^[1][2][3] While the New Testament never directly quotes from or names these books, the apostles most frequently used and quoted the Septuagint, which includes them. Some say there is a correspondence of thought,^[4][5] and others see texts from these books being paraphrased, referred or alluded to many times in the New Testament, particularly in the Pauline epistles, depending in large measure on what is counted as a reference.^[6]Although there is no scholarly consensus as to when the Hebrew Bible canon was fixed, some scholars hold that the Hebrew canon was established well before the first century AD – even as early as the fourth century BC,^[7] or by the Hasmonean dynasty (140–40 BC).^[8] The modern Hebrew canon does not include the seven deuterocanonical books, and this was the basis for excluding them from the Protestant Old Testament.The Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, which the early Christian church used as its Old Testament, included all of the deuterocanonical books. The term distinguished these books from both the protocanonical books (the books of the Hebrew canon) and the biblical apocrypha (books of Jewish origin that were sometimes read in Christian churches as scripture but which were not regarded as canonical).^[9]The Council of Rome (AD 382) defined a list of books of scripture as canonical. It included most of the deuterocanonical books.^[10] Since the 16th century, most Protestant churches have accepted only works in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible as the canonical Old Testament, and hence classify all the non-protocanonical books from the Septuagint as apocrypha. Judaism excludes these books. It is commonly said that Judaism officially excluded the deuterocanonicals and the additional Greek texts listed here from their scripture in the Council of Jamnia (c. AD 70–90), but this claim is disputed.^[11]

Canonical (deuterocanonical books - (or Apocryphal books)  for the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church:^[12]

• Tobit

• Judith
• Baruch
• Sirach
• 1 Maccabees
• 2 Maccabees
• Wisdom
• Additions to Esther, Daniel, and Baruch:
  • Esther:
    • Fulfillment of Mordecai's Dream (Esther 10:4–13)
    • Interpretation of Mordecai's Dream (Vulgate Esther 11)
    • Conspiracy of the Two Eunuchs (Vulgate Esther 12)
    • Letter of Aman and the Prayer of Mordecai to the Jews (Vulgate Esther 13)
    • The Prayer of Esther (Vulgate Esther 14)
    • Esther Comes into the King's Presence (Vulgate Esther 15)
    • Letter of King Artaxerxes (Vulgate Esther 16)
  • Daniel:
    • The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children (SeptuagintDaniel 3:24–90)
    • Susanna and the Elders (Septuagint prologue, Vulgate Daniel 13)
    • Bel and the Dragon (Septuagint epilogue, Vulgate Daniel 14)
  • Baruch:
    • Letter of Jeremiah (Baruch 6)

Canonical only for the Eastern Orthodox Church:^[12]

• Prayer of Manasseh
• 1 Esdras
• 2 Esdras
• Psalm 151
• 3 Maccabees
• 4 Maccabees as an appendix

Deuterocanonical and Apocryphal books included in the Latin Vulgate^[86]

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books

ÉTYMOLOGY (origin of the words) : « BIBLE » and « TESTAMENT »

• The English word " Bible " is derived from Koinē Greek: τὰ βιβλία, romanized: ta biblia, meaning "the books" (singular βιβλίον, biblion).^[10] The word βιβλίον itself had the literal meaning of "scroll" and came to be used as the ordinary word for "book". It is the diminutive of βύβλος byblos, "Egyptian papyrus", possibly so called from the name of the Phoenician sea port Byblos (also known as Gebal) from whence Egyptian papyrus was exported to Greece. By the 2nd century BCE, Jewish groups began calling the books of the Bible the "scriptures" and they referred to them as "holy", or in Hebrew כִּתְבֵי הַקֹּדֶשׁ (Kitvei hakkodesh), and Christians now commonly call the Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible "The Holy Bible" (in Greek τὰ βιβλία τὰ ἅγια, tà biblía tà ágia) or "the Holy Scriptures" (η Αγία Γραφή, e Agía Graphḗ).^[11] 

• The word " testament " in the expression "New Testament" refers to a new covenant that Christians believe completes or fulfils the Mosaic covenant (the old covenant) that Yahweh (the national God of Israel) made with the people of Israel made on Mount Sinai through Moses, described in the books of the Old Testament.^[11] Christians traditionally view this new covenant as being prophesized in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31–34). 

The word " covenant " means 'agreement' (from Latin con-venio 'to agree' lit. 'to come together'): the use of the word testament, which describes the different idea of written instructions for inheritance after death, to refer to the covenant with Israel in the Old Testament, is foreign to the original Hebrew word brit (בְּרִית) describing it, which only means 'alliance, covenant, pact' and never 'inheritance instructions after death'.^[12][13] This use comes from the transcription of Latin testamentum 'will (left after death)',^[14] a literal translation of Greek diatheke (διαθήκη) 'will (left after death)',^[15] which is the word used to translate Hebrew brit in the Septuagint.^[16] 

CHRONOLOGY OF THE BIBLE

The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites.^[1] The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors produced over a period of centuries.^[2] 

A biblical canon, also called canon of scripture, is a set of texts (or "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as authoritative scripture.^[1] The English word canon comes from the Greek κανών, meaning "rule" or "measuring stick". Christians were the first to use the term in reference to scripture, but Eugene Ulrich regards the notion as Jewish.^[2][3] 

Christians traditionally divide the Old Testament into four (4) sections: 

• the first five books or Pentateuch (corresponds to the Jewish Torah); 

• the history books telling the history of the Israelites, from their conquest of Canaan to their defeat and exile in Babylon; 

• the poetic and "Wisdom books" dealing, in various forms, with questions of good and evil in the world; 

• and the books of the biblical prophets, warning of the consequences of turning away from God. 

The books that compose the Old Testament canon and their order and names differ between various branches of Christianity.  

The first five books – Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, book of Numbers and Deuteronomy – reached their present form in the Persian period (538–332 BC), and their authors were the elite of exilic returnees who controlled the Temple at that time.^[18] 

The books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings follow, forming a history of Israel from the Conquest of Canaan to the Siege of Jerusalem c. 587 BC. There is a broad consensus among scholars that these originated as a single work (the so-called "Deuteronomistic History") during the Babylonian exile of the 6th century BC.^[19]

The two Books of Chronicles cover much the same material as the Pentateuch and Deuteronomistic history and probably date from the 4th century BC.^[20] 

Chronicles, and Ezra–Nehemiah, was probably finished during the 3rd century BC.^[21] 

Catholic and Orthodox Old Testaments contain two (Catholic Old Testament) to four (Orthodox) Books of Maccabees, written in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. These history books make up around half the total content of the Old Testament. Of the remainder, the books of the various prophets – Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve "minor prophets" – were written between the 8th and 6th centuries BC, with the exceptions of Jonah and Daniel, which were written much later.^[22] 

The "wisdom" books – Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Psalms, Song of Solomon – have various dates: Proverbs possibly was completed by the Hellenistic time (332–198 BC), though containing much older material as well; Job completed by the 6th century BC; Ecclesiastes by the 3rd century BC.^[23] 

Hebrew texts began to be translated into Greek in Alexandria in about 280 and continued until about 130 BC.^[34] These early Greek translations – supposedly commissioned by Ptolemy Philadelphus – were called the Septuagint (Latin: "Seventy") from the supposed number of translators involved (hence its abbreviation "LXX"). This Septuagint remains the basis of the Old Testament in the Eastern Orthodox Church.^[35]  

Greek-speaking Jews in Alexandria and elsewhere in the Jewish diaspora considered additional scriptures, composed between 200 BCE and 100 CE and not included in the Hebrew Bible, to be canon. These additional texts were included in a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Koine Greek (common Greek spoken by ordinary people) known as the Septuagint (meaning "the work of the seventy"), which began as a translation of the Torah made around 250 BCE and continued to develop for several centuries. The Septuagint contained all of the books of the Hebrew Bible, re-organized and with some textual differences, with the additional scriptures interspersed throughout.^[21]

Jewish rabbis began developing a standard Hebrew Bible in the 1st century CE, maintained since the middle of the first millennium by the Masoretes, and called the Masoretic Text.

During the rise of Christianity in the 1st century CE, new scriptures were written in Greek about the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, who Christians believed was the messiah prophesized in the books of the Hebrew Bible. Two collections of these new scriptures – the Pauline epistles and the Gospels – were accepted as canon by the end of the 2nd century CE. A third collection, the catholic epistles, were canonized over the next few centuries. 

Christians called these new scriptures the "New Testament", and began referring to the Septuagint as the "Old Testament".^[22]

The Early Christian church used the Greek texts,^[11] since Greek was a lingua franca of the Roman Empire at the time and the language of the Greco-Roman Church while Aramaic was the language of Syriac Christianity. The relationship between the apostolic use of the Septuagint and the Hebrew texts is complicated. Although the Septuagint seems to have been a major source for the Apostles, it is not the only one.  

The Septuagint is the basis for the Old Latin, Slavonic, Syriac, Old Armenian, Old Georgian and Coptic versions of the Christian Old Testament.^[60] The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches use most of the books of the Septuagint, while Protestant churches usually do not. After the Protestant Reformation, many Protestant Bibles began to follow the Jewish canon and exclude the additional texts, which came to be called biblical apocrypha. The Apocrypha are included under a separate heading in the King James Version of the Bible, the basis for the Revised Standard Version.^[61] 

Between 385 and 405 CE, the early Christian church translated its canon into Vulgar Latin (the common Latin spoken by ordinary people), a translation known as the Vulgate, which included in its Old Testament the books that were in the Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible. The Vulgate introduced stability to the Bible, but also began the East-West Schism between Latin-speaking Western Christianity (led by the Catholic Church) and multi-lingual Eastern Christianity (led by the Eastern Orthodox Church). 

Christian denominations' biblical canons varied not only in the language of the books, but also in their selection, organization, and text.^[23]

Christians have held ecumenical councils to standardize their biblical canon since the 4th century CE. The Council of Trent (1545–63), held by the Catholic Church in response to the Protestant Reformation, authorized the Vulgate as its official Latin translation of the Bible. The Church deemed the additional books in its Old Testament that were interspersed among the Hebrew Bible books to be "deuterocanonical" (meaning part of a second or later canon). Protestant Bibles either separated these books into a separate section called the "Apocrypha" (meaning "hidden away") between the Old and New Testaments, or omitted them altogether. The 17th-century Protestant King James Version was the most ubiquitous English Bible of all time, but it has largely been superseded by modern translations.^[24] 

A biblical canon, also called canon of scripture, is a set of texts (or "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as authoritative scripture.^[1] The English word canon comes from the Greek κανών, meaning "rule" or "measuring stick". Christians were the first to use the term in reference to scripture, but Eugene Ulrich regards the notion as Jewish.^[2][3] 

Development of the Christian canons

The Old Testament canon entered into Christian use in the Greek Septuagint translations and original books, and their differing lists of texts. In addition to the Septuagint, Christianity^[vague] subsequently added various writings that would become the New Testament. Somewhat different lists of accepted works continued to develop in antiquity. In the 4th century a series of synods produced a list of texts equal to the 39, 46, 51, or 54-book canon of the Old Testament and to the 27-book canon of the New Testament that would be subsequently used to today, most notably the Synod of Hippo in 393 CE. Also c. 400, Jerome produced a definitive Latin edition of the Bible (see Vulgate), the canon of which, at the insistence of the Pope, was in accord with the earlier Synods. With the benefit of hindsight, it can be said that this process effectively set the New Testament canon, although there are examples of other canonical lists in use after this time.The Protestant Old Testament of today has a 39-book canon – the number of books (though not the content) varies from the Jewish Tanakh only because of a different method of division – while the Roman Catholic Church recognizes 46 books (51 books with some books combined into 46 books) as the canonical Old Testament. The Eastern Orthodox Churches recognize 3 Maccabees, 1 Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh and Psalm 151 in addition to the Catholic canon. Some include 2 Esdras. The term "Hebrew Scriptures" is often used as being synonymous with the Protestant Old Testament, since the surviving scriptures in Hebrew include only those books, while Catholics and Orthodox include additional texts that have not survived in Hebrew. Eighty book Protestant Bibles include 14 books called Apocrypha in between the Old Testament and the New Testament that are deemed useful for instruction but non-canonical.^{[75][93] [74]} Both Catholics and Protestants (as well as Greek Orthodox) have the same 27-book New Testament Canon.^[94]The New Testament writers assumed the inspiration of the Old Testament, probably earliest stated in 2 Timothy 3:16, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God".^[12] 

AUTHORS OF THE BIBLE

Source : 

https://www.gotquestions.org/Francais/Auteurs-Bible.html

https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-authors.html

BOOKS OF THE CHRISTIAN HOLY BIBLE

The List of the bible books is split in two big sections:

• The Old Testament.
• The New testament.

BOOKS OF THE BIBLE : OLD TESTAMENT 

(Old Testament = 46 Books including the seven (7) Deuterocanonical books)

https://static.s123-cdn-static-c.com/uploads/2244931/normal_606c99cb2dbfd.pdf 

OR

(Old Testament = 39 Books excluding the Deuterocanonical books) in chronological order list

The Catholic Bible is composed of :

• the 46 books of the Old Testament (including the seven (7) deuterocanonical books) and

•  the 27 books of the New Testament.

A biblical canon, also called canon of scripture, is a set of texts (or "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as authoritative scripture.^[1] The English word canon comes from the Greek κανών, meaning "rule" or "measuring stick". Christians were the first to use the term in reference to scripture, but Eugene Ulrich regards the notion as Jewish.^[2][3]

The Old Testament in chronological order list

The Old Testament or Jewish Tanakh is the first book of the Bible. It contains the origin and the universe creation, the exodus from Egypt, the Israel formation ,the Prophets and the Wisdom Books.

1. Genesis: First book of Moses (50 chapters)
2. Exodus: Second  (40 chapters)
3. Leviticus: Third (27 chapters)
4. Numbers: Fourth  (36 chapters)
5. Deuteronomy: Fifth  (34 chapters)
6. Book of Joshua (24 chapters)
7. The Book of Judges (21 chapters)
8. Book of Ruth (4 chapters)
9. 1st Book of Samuel (31 chapters)
10. Second (24 chapters)
11. 1st Book of Kings (22 chapters)
12. Second  (24 chapters)
13. 1st Book of Chronicles (29 chapters)
14. Second  (36 chapters)
15. Book of Ezra (ezra nehemiah) (10 chapters)
16. The Book of Nehemiah (13 chapters)
17. Book of Esther (10 chapters)
18. The Book of Job (42 chapters)
19. Book of Psalms (150 chapters)
20. Proverbs (31 chapters)
21. Ecclesiastes (12 chapters)
22. The Song of Solomon or Son of Songs or Canticles (8 chapters)
23. Isaiah (66 chapters)
24. Jeremiah (52 chapters)
25. Lamentations (5 chapters)
26. Ezekiel (48 chapters)
27. Daniel (12 chapters)
28. Hosea (14 chapters)
29. Joel (3 chapters)
30. Amos (9 chapters)
31. Obadiah (1 chapter)
32. Jonah (4 chapters)
33. Micah (7 chapters)
34. Nahum (3 chapters)
35. Habakkuk (3 chapters)
36.  Zephaniah (3 chapters)
37. Haggai (2 chapters)
38. Zechariah (14 chapters)
39. Malachi (4 chapters)

BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: NEW TESTAMENT   

The New Testament in chronological order list

The New Testament list are the ones placed after the Old Testament. The New Testament includes Jesus life and early churches.

1. Gospel according to Matthew
2. The Gospel according to Mark
3. Gospel according to Luke
4. The Gospel according to John
5. Acts (of the Apostles)
6. Romans (epistle of Paul to the romans)
7. 1 Corinthians: First epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
8. 2 Corinthians: Second epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
9. Galatians: Epistle of Paul to the galatians
10. Ephesians: Epistle of Paul to the ephesians
11. Philippians: Epistle of Paul to the philippians
12. Colossians: Epistle of Paul to the Colossians
13. 1 Thessalonians: First epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians
14. 2 Thessalonians: Second
15. 1 Timothy: First epistle of Paul to timothy
16. 2 Timothy: Second
17. Titus: Epistle of Paul to Titus
18. Philemon: Epistle of Paul to Philemon
19. Hebrews: Epistle to the Hebrews
20. James: The general epistle of James
21. 1 Peter: The first epistle of Peter
22. 2 Peter: The second epistle of Peter
23. 1 John: The first epistle of John
24. 2 John: The second
25. 3 John: The third
26. Jude: The epistle of Jude
27. Revelation: The book of revelation or Apocalypse of John.

Old Testament's Books : Books' descriptions

• Pentateuch: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

• Historical books: Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees

• Wisdom books: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach

• Prophetic books: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

Deuterocanon 

(The books that are part of the Christian Old Testament but that are not part of the Hebrew canon are sometimes described as deuterocanonical )

Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and additions to Esther and Daniel are the deuterocanonical books of the Bible.

New Testament's Books : Books' descriptions

Main article: New Testament - The New Testament is the name given to the second and final portion of the Christian Bible. Jesus is its central figure. The term "New Testament" came into use in the 2nd century during a controversy among Christians over whether the Hebrew Bible should be included with the Christian writings as sacred scripture. The New Testament presupposes the inspiration of the Old Testament.^[84] Some other works which were widely read by early churches were excluded from the New Testament and relegated to the collections known as the Apostolic Fathers (generally considered orthodox) and the New Testament Apocrypha (including both orthodox and heretical works).  The New Testament is a collection of 27 books^[85] of 4 different genres of Christian literature (Gospels, one account of the Acts of the Apostles, Epistles and an Apocalypse).  These books can be grouped into: The Gospels

• Synoptic Gospels (The Gospels)

  • Gospel According to Matthew

  • Gospel According to Mark

  • Gospel According to Luke

  • Gospel According to John

Narrative literature, account and history of the Apostolic age (Historical book)

• Acts of the Apostles 

Pauline Epistles (Pauline epistles)

• Epistle to the Romans

• First Epistle to the Corinthians

• Second Epistle to the Corinthians

• Epistle to the Galatians

• Epistle to the Ephesians

• Epistle to the Philippians

• Epistle to the Colossians

• First Epistle to the Thessalonians

• Second Epistle to the Thessalonians

Pastoral epistles 

• First Epistle to Timothy

• Second Epistle to Timothy

• Epistle to Titus

• Epistle to Philemon

• Epistle to the Hebrews

General epistles, also called catholic meaning general epistles (General epistles)

• Epistle of James

• First Epistle of Peter

• Second Epistle of Peter

• First Epistle of John

• Second Epistle of John

• Third Epistle of John

• Epistle of Jude

Apocalyptic literature, also called Prophetical

• Revelation, or the Apocalypse

The New Testament books are ordered differently in the Catholic/Orthodox/Protestant tradition, the Slavonic tradition, the Syriac tradition and the Ethiopian tradition.

Language (New Testament)

Language of the New Testament : The major languages spoken by both Jews and Greeks in the Holy Land at the time of Jesus were Aramaic and Koine Greek, and also a colloquial dialect of Mishnaic Hebrew. It is generally agreed by most scholars that the historical Jesus primarily spoke Aramaic,^[109] perhaps also some Hebrew and Koine Greek. The majority view is that all of the books that would eventually form the New Testament were written in the Koine Greek language.^[110][111]

As Christianity spread, these books were later translated into other languages, most notably, Latin, Syriac, and Egyptian Coptic. However, some of the Church Fathers^[112] imply or claim that Matthew was originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic, and then soon after was written in Koine Greek. Nevertheless, some scholars believe the Gospel of Matthew known today was composed in Greek and is neither directly dependent upon nor a translation of a text in a Semitic language.^[113]

Old Testament : Books / Canon adopted by each Christian religious community : 

Empty table cells indicate that a book is absent from that canon.

A biblical canon, also called canon of scripture, is a set of texts (or "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as authoritative scripture.^[1] The English word canon comes from the Greek κανών, meaning "rule" or "measuring stick". Christians were the first to use the term in reference to scripture, but Eugene Ulrich regards the notion as Jewish.^[2][3] 

Deuterocanonical books

The deuterocanonical books (from the Greek meaning "belonging to the second canon") are books and passages considered by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East to be canonical books of the Old Testament, but that Protestant denominations do not regard as part of the biblical canon. They date from 300 BC–AD 100, mostly from 200 BC–AD 70, before the definite separation of the Christian church from Judaism.^[1][2][3]

Canonical (deuterocanonical books - (or Apocryphal books) ) for the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church:^[12]

• Tobit
• Judith
• Baruch
• Sirach
• 1 Maccabees
• 2 Maccabees
• Wisdom
• Additions to Esther, Daniel, and Baruch:
  • Esther:
    • Fulfillment of Mordecai's Dream (Esther 10:4–13)
    • Interpretation of Mordecai's Dream (Vulgate Esther 11)
    • Conspiracy of the Two Eunuchs (Vulgate Esther 12)
    • Letter of Aman and the Prayer of Mordecai to the Jews (Vulgate Esther 13)
    • The Prayer of Esther (Vulgate Esther 14)
    • Esther Comes into the King's Presence (Vulgate Esther 15)
    • Letter of King Artaxerxes (Vulgate Esther 16)
  • Daniel:
    • The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children (SeptuagintDaniel 3:24–90)
    • Susanna and the Elders (Septuagint prologue, Vulgate Daniel 13)
    • Bel and the Dragon (Septuagint epilogue, Vulgate Daniel 14)
  • Baruch:
    • Letter of Jeremiah (Baruch 6)

The Clementine Vulgate and the original Douay Rheims Bible also included in an appendix three apocrypha books; Prayer of Manasseh, 3 Esdras, and 4 Esdras.^[3][4][a]

Several of the books in the Eastern Orthodox canon are also found in the appendix to the Latin Vulgate, formerly the official bible of the Roman Catholic Church.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament

Prophets of Christianity

Main list of prophets (68)

A

• Aaron
• Ahijah Book of Kings 1 Kings 11.29
• Amos (One of the 12 Minor Prophets)
• Agabus (Acts of the Apostles11:27–28)
• Azariah (2 Chronicles15:1–8)

D

• Daniel (Matthew24:15)
• David (Hebrews11:32)
• Deborah (Judges4:4)

E

• Elijah (1 Kings18:36)
• Elisha (2 Kings9:1)
• Enoch (Jude1:14)
• Ezekiel (Ezekiel1:3)
• Ezra (Ezra7ff)

G

• Gad (1 Samuel22:5)
• Gideon (Judges 6 through 8)

H

• Habakkuk (Habakkuk1:1)
• Haggai (Haggai1:1)
• Hanani (2 Chronicles16:7)
• Hosea (Hosea1:1)
• Huldah (2 Kings22:14)

I

• Iddo (2 Chronicles13:22)
• Isaac (Genesis26:2–7)
• Isaiah (2 Kings19:2)

J

Horace Vernet, Jeremiah on the ruins of Jerusalem (1844)

• Jacob (Genesis28:11–16)
• Jehu (1 Kings16:7)
• Jeremiah (Jeremiah20:2)
• Joel (Acts2:16)
• John the Baptist (Luke7:28)
• John of Patmos (Revelation1:1–3)
• Jonah (2 Kings14:25)
• Joshua (Joshua1:1)
• Judas Barsabbas (Acts3:15)
• Job (Job1:1)

L

• Lamech (Genesis5:28–29)
• Lucius of Cyrene (Acts13:1)

M

• Malachi (Malachi1:1)
• Manahen (Acts13:1)
• Melchizedek (Genesis 14:18–24)
• Micah (Micah1:1)
• Micaiah (1 Kings22:9)
• Moses (Deuteronomy34:10)

N

• Nahum (Nahum1:1)
• Nathan (2 Samuel7:2)
• Noah (Genesis7:1)

O

• Obadiah (Obadiah1:1)
• Oded (2 Chronicles15:8) Father of Azariah the prophet
• Oded (2 Chronicles28:9)

P

• Philip the Evangelist (Acts8:26) Note: His four daughters also prophesied (Acts21:8, 9)
• Paul the Apostle (Acts of the Apostles9:20)

S

• Samuel (1 Samuel3:20)
• Shemaiah (1 Kings12:22)
• Silas (Acts15:32)
• Simeon Niger (Acts13:1)

T

• Two Witnesses (Revelation11:3)

U

• Uriah (Jeremiah26:20)

Z

• Zechariah, son of Berechiah (Zechariah1:1)
• Zechariah, son of Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 24:20)
• Zephaniah (Zephaniah1:1)

Fifteen named people with prophetic experiences and 70 elders

• Ananias of Damascus (Acts9:10–18)
• Eldad (Numbers11:26)
• Eliezer (2 Chronicles20:37)
• Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist (Luke1:41)
• Elihu (Job32–35)
• Jahaziel (2 Chronicles20:14)
• Joseph (Genesis37:5–11)
• Joseph, fosterfather of Jesus (Matthew1:20)
• Mary, mother of Jesus (Luke1:26–28)
• Medad (Numbers11:26)
• King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (Daniel2:1)
• Saul note: the first king to unite Israel (1 Samuel10:10)
• Simeon of Jerusalem (Luke2:25, 26)
• Solomon (1 Kings3:5)
• The seventy elders of Israel (Numbers11:25)
• Zechariah, father of John the Baptist (Luke1:67)

Unnamed prophets and men of God

• A prophet (Judges6:8–10)
• A man of God (1 Samuel2:27–36)
• A man of God from Judah (1 Kings13:1)
• An old prophet from Bethel (1 Kings13:11)
• A prophet (1 Kings20:13,22)
• A man of God (1 Kings20:28)
• One of the sons of the prophets (1 Kings20:35–42)
• A man of God (2 Chronicles25:7–9)
• A prophet (2 Chronicles25:15–16)

Eleven false prophets and false prophets of Baal

Main article: False prophet

• Ahab, son of Kolaiah (Jeremiah29:21–23)
• Antichrist (1 John2:18–19)
• Azur (Jeremiah28:1)
• Balaam (Book of Numbers22–25)
• Elymas (a.k.a. Bar-Jesus) (Acts 13:6–12)
• Hananiah (Jeremiah28:5)
• Jezebel (Revelation2:20) (not to be confused with the Jezebel of the Old Testament)
• The false prophet of the Book of Revelation (16:13, 19:20, 20:10)
• The false prophets of Baal (1 Kings18:13–40)
• Noadiah (Nehemiah6:14)
• Shemaiah the Nehelamite (Jeremiah29:24)
• Simon Magus (Acts 8:9–24)
• Zedekiah, son of Maaseiah (Jeremiah29:21)
• Zedekiah1 Kings (22:24)

Source : Prophets of Christianity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophets_of_Christianity

English translations

The first English translation (which excluded the apocrypha) was Charles Thomson's in 1808, which was revised and enlarged by C. A. Muses in 1954 and published by the Falcon's Wing Press. The Septuagint with Apocrypha: Greek and English was translated by Lancelot Brenton in 1854. It is the traditional translation and most of the time since its publication it has been the only one readily available, and it has continually been in print.  

The Complete Apostles' Bible (translated by Paul W. Esposito) was published in 2007. Using the Masoretic Text in the 23rd Psalm (and possibly elsewhere), it omits the apocrypha. 

A New English Translation of the Septuagint and the Other Greek Translations Traditionally Included Under that Title (NETS), an academic translation based on the New Revised Standard version (in turn based on the Masoretic Text) was published by the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) in October 2007

Influence upon the English language

The Vulgate (Latin translation of the Bible) had a large influence on the development of the English language, especially in matters of religion. Many Latin words were taken from the Vulgate into English nearly unchanged in meaning or spelling.

Chapters and verses of the Bible

The chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts; they form part of the paratext of the Bible.  

The Jewish divisions of the Hebrew text differ at various points from those used by Christians. For instance, in Jewish tradition, the ascriptions to many Psalms are regarded as independent verses or parts of the subsequent verses, whereas established Christian practice treats each Psalm ascription as independent and unnumbered, making 116 more verses in Jewish versions than in the Christian. Some chapter divisions also occur in different places, e.g. Hebrew Bibles have 1 Chronicles 5:27-41^[1] where Christian translations have 1 Chronicles 6:1-15^[2][3] .

Early manuscripts of the biblical texts did not contain the chapter and verse divisions in the numbered form familiar to modern readers. In antiquity Hebrew texts were divided into paragraphs (parashot) that were identified by two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Peh (פ) indicated an "open" paragraph that began on a new line, while Samekh (ס) indicated a "closed" paragraph that began on the same line after a small space.^[4] These two letters begin the Hebrew words open (patuach) and closed (sagur), and are, themselves, open in shape (פ) and closed (ס). The earliest known copies of the Book of Isaiah from the Dead Sea Scrolls used parashot divisions, although they differ slightly from the Masoretic divisions.^[5] (This is different from the use of consecutive letters of the Hebrew alphabet to structure certain poetic compositions, known as acrostics, such as several of the Psalms and most of the Book of Lamentations.) The Hebrew Bible was also divided into some larger sections. In Israel the Torah (its first five books) were divided into 154 sections so that they could be read through aloud in weekly worship over the course of three years. In Babylonia it was divided into 53 or 54 sections (Parashat ha-Shavua) so it could be read through in one year.^[5] The New Testament was divided into topical sections known as kephalaia by the fourth century. Eusebius of Caesarea divided the gospels into parts that he listed in tables or canons. Neither of these systems corresponds with modern chapter divisions.^[6] (See below.)

Source :  Chapters and verses of the Bible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible

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SOURCES :

The Bible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible

Old Testament

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament 

New Testament

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament

The Books of the Bible (book)

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_the_Bible 

Hebrew Bible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible

TaNaKh

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanakh 

Torah (Pentateuch)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah#Alternative_names

Ketuvim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketuvim 

Nevi'im

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevi%27im 

Deuterocanonical books 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books

Septante

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint

Vulgate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate 

Bible Lexicon

https://biblehub.com/lexicon/

Holy Bible Atlas

https://st-takla.org/Coptic-Bible-Maps/Holy-Bible-Map-index-00.html

https://archive.org/details/atlasofbible0000roge/page/n247/mode/2up

https://holybooks-lichtenbergpress.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Bible-Atlas.pdf

Codex Sinaiticus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus

To undertake a search in the Codex Sinaiticus : 

http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net/en/manuscript.aspx

Read the Bible : 

Version : Literal Standard Version ("LSV")

Bible Hub site : https://biblehub.com/lsv/genesis/1.htm

ebible.org site : https://ebible.org/englsv/

Bible Support (for e-sword) site : http://www.biblesupport.com/e-sword-downloads/file/11778-literal-standard-version-lsv-e-sword/

LSV Bible site : https://www.lsvbible.com/ 

Read the Bible : 

Version : Good News Bible (Catholic edition in Septuagint order) (GNBDK)

Bible.com site : https://www.bible.com/versions/431-gnbdk-good-news-bible-catholic-edition-in-septuagint-order

BibleGateway site : (Good News Translation - GNT) https://www.biblegateway.com/ibs/bibles/translations/index.php