Books of the Bible

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The canonical list of the Books of the Bible differs among Jews, and Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox Christians, even though there is a great deal of overlap. Below a table is presented to compare the canons of these denominations (other faiths are not currently included) for both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. A detailed discussion of the differences is found in the article on Biblical canon.

It should be noted that the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches may have minor differences in the list of accepted books. The list given here for these churches is the most broad list of canonical books—that is, if at least one eastern church accepts the book, it is included in the list here. The books included by the Roman Catholic Church are universally included in the eastern canons.

1 Tanakh/Old Testament
2 New Testament
3 Notes
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Tanakh/Old Testament

Table cells with an asterisk (*) indicate that a book is present, but in a different order. Empty table cells indicate that a book is absent from the relevant canon; such books are often referred to as apocrypha. The term "Apocrypha" is sometimes used to refer specifically (and possibly pejoratively) to those books in the Catholic canon that are absent from the Protestant Bible; Catholics refer to those books as deuterocanonical.

Tanakh	Protestant Old Testament	Catholic Old Testament	Eastern Orthodox Old Testament	Slavonic Old Testament
Torah or Pentateuch
Genesis	Genesis	Genesis	Genesis	Genesis
Exodus	Exodus	Exodus	Exodus	Exodus
Leviticus	Leviticus	Leviticus	Leviticus	Leviticus
Numbers	Numbers	Numbers	Numbers	Numbers
Deuteronomy	Deuteronomy	Deuteronomy	Deuteronomy	Deuteronomy
Nevi'im or Prophets	Historical books
Joshua	Joshua	Joshua	Joshua	Joshua
Judges	Judges	Judges	Judges	Judges
*	Ruth	Ruth	Ruth	Ruth
Samuel	1 Samuel	1 Samuel	1 Samuel (1 Kingdoms)¹³	1 Kingdoms
Samuel	2 Samuel	2 Samuel	2 Samuel (2 Kingdoms)¹³	2 Kingdoms
Kings	1 Kings	1 Kings	1 Kings (3 Kingdoms)¹³	3 Kingdoms
Kings	2 Kings	2 Kings	2 Kings (4 Kingdoms)¹³	4 Kingdoms
(Chronicles)*	1 Chronicles	1 Chronicles	1 Chronicles	1 Chronicles
(Chronicles)*	2 Chronicles	2 Chronicles	2 Chronicles	2 Chronicles
			1 Esdras⁶	(2 Esdras)*
(Ezra)*	Ezra	Ezra	Ezra (2 Esdras)^12,13	Ezra
(Ezra)*	Nehemiah	Nehemiah	Nehemiah (2 Esdras)^12,13	Nehemiah
			(1 Esdras)*	2 Esdras
		Tobit	Tobit	Tobit
		Judith	Judith	Judith
*	Esther	Esther²	Esther²	Esther²
		1 Maccabees⁵	1 Maccabees	*
		2 Maccabees⁵	2 Maccabees	*
			3 Maccabees
			4 Maccabees
	Wisdom books
*	Job	Job	Job	Job
*	Psalms	Psalms	Psalms⁹	Psalms⁹
			Odes⁷
*	Proverbs	Proverbs	Proverbs	Proverbs
*	Ecclesiastes	Ecclesiastes	Ecclesiastes	Ecclesiastes
(Song of Songs)*	Song of Solomon	Song of Solomon	Song of Solomon	Song of Songs
		Wisdom	Wisdom	Wisdom of Solomon
		Sirach	Sirach	Sirach
	Major prophets
Isaiah	Isaiah	Isaiah	Isaiah	Isaiah
Jeremiah	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	Jeremiah
*	Lamentations	Lamentations	Lamentations	Lamentations of Jeremiah
		*	*	Letter of Jeremiah
		Baruch³	Baruch³	Baruch³
		Baruch³	Letter of Jeremiah⁸	*
Ezekiel	Ezekiel	Ezekiel	Ezekiel	Ezekiel
*	Daniel	Daniel⁴	Daniel⁴	Daniel⁴
	Minor prophets
The Twelve Prophets	Hosea	Hosea	Hosea	Hosea
	Joel	Joel	Joel	Joel
	Amos	Amos	Amos	Amos
	Obadiah	Obadiah	Obadiah	Obadiah
	Jonah	Jonah	Jonah	Jonah
	Micah	Micah	Micah	Micah
	Nahum	Nahum	Nahum	Nahum
	Habakkuk	Habakkuk	Habakkuk	Habakkuk
	Zephaniah	Zephaniah	Zephaniah	Zephaniah
	Haggai	Haggai	Haggai	Haggai
	Zechariah	Zechariah	Zechariah	Zechariah
	Malachi	Malachi	Malachi	Malachi
Ketuvim or Writings¹⁰	*	*	*	*
Psalms
Proverbs
Job
Song of Songs
Ruth
Lamentations
Ecclesiastes
Esther
Daniel
Ezra (includes Nehemiah)
Chronicles
		*⁵	*	1 Maccabees
		*⁵	*	2 Maccabees

[edit] New Testament

In general, among Christian groups the New Testament canon is agreed-upon, although book order can vary.

Catholic, most Protestant, almost all Orthodox	Luther Bible	Slavonic Bible
The Gospels
Matthew	Matthew	Matthew
Mark	Mark	Mark
Luke	Luke	Luke
John	John	John
The History
Acts	Acts	Acts
The Pauline epistles	The Pauline epistles	The General epistles
Romans	Romans	James
1 Corinthians	1 Corinthians	1 Peter
2 Corinthians	2 Corinthians	2 Peter
Galatians	Galatians	1 John
Ephesians	Ephesians	2 John
Philippians	Philippians	3 John
Colossians	Colossians	Jude
1 Thessalonians	1 Thessalonians	The Pauline epistles
2 Thessalonians	2 Thessalonians	Romans
1 Timothy	1 Timothy	1 Corinthians
2 Timothy	2 Timothy	2 Corinthians
Titus	Titus	Galatians
Philemon	Philemon	Ephesians
The General epistles	The General epistles	Philippians
Hebrews	1 Peter	Colossians
James	2 Peter	1 Thessalonians
1 Peter	1 John	2 Thessalonians
2 Peter	2 John	1 Timothy
1 John	3 John	2 Timothy
2 John	Books questioned by Luther	Titus
3 John	Hebrews	Philemon
Jude	James	Hebrews
Apocalypse	Jude	Apocalypse
Revelation of Christ to John	Revelation of Christ to John	Revelation of Christ to John

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has a few additional books in its canon: Jubilees, Book of Enoch, the Shepherd of Hermas, 1 Clement, Acts of Paul, and some uniquely Ethiopian books. There is a matter of some controversy as to what constitutes "canon" in this religious body. The Peshitta excludes 2-3 John, 2 Peter, Jude, and Revelation, but Bibles of the modern Syriac Orthodox Church includes later translations of those books. Third Epistle to the Corinthians was once considered part of the Armenian Orthodox Bible.

[edit] Notes

Return links: Tanakh/Old Testament — New Testament

² The Catholic and Orthodox Book of Esther includes 103 verses not in the Protestant Book of Esther.
³ In Catholic Bibles, Baruch includes a sixth chapter called the Letter of Jeremiah. Baruch is not in the Protestant Old Testament.
⁴ In Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, Daniel includes three sections not included in Protestant Bibles. The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children are included between Daniel 3:23-24. Susanna is included as Daniel 13. Bel and the Dragon is included as Daniel 14. These are not in the Protestant Old Testament.
⁵ The Latin Vulgate and the Douay-Rheims place First and Second Maccabees after Malachi; modern Catholic translations place them after Esther.
⁷ The Book of Odes includes the Prayer of Manasseh. This book is not present in the Catholic or Protestant Old Testaments.
⁸ Eastern Orthodox Bibles have the books of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah separate.
⁹Eastern Orthodox churches include Psalm 151, not present in all canons.
¹⁰These books are found among the historical and wisdom books of the Christian canons.
¹²Some Eastern Orthodox churches follow the Septuagint and the Hebrew bibles by considering the books of Ezra and Nehemiah as one book.
¹³Names in brackets are the Septuagint names and are often used by the Orthodox Christians.