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A library rather than a book — sixty-six documents, written across roughly a thousand years, in three languages, by many hands.
The Old Testament is the Scripture of Israel, written mostly in Hebrew with some Aramaic. The New Testament was written in common Greek in the 1st century AD. Christians read them together; the relationship between them is one of the oldest questions in Christian thought.
Law, history, poetry, proverb, prophecy, biography, letter and apocalypse. Reading a psalm the way you read a legal code, or a parable the way you read a chronicle, produces nonsense — genre is not a technicality here.
The books are not arranged in the order they were written, and the Bible does not read as a single continuous narrative. What holds it together is a story its writers keep returning to: a creation, a promise, a people, and — Christians hold — its fulfilment in Jesus.
It was spoken before it was written, copied by hand for centuries, gathered gradually into a recognised collection, and translated many times over. None of that is a secret embarrassment; it is simply how the book reached us, and it is worth knowing.
At a glance
Hebrew and Aramaic in the Old Testament, Greek in the New. Counts follow the Protestant canon of 66 books; Catholic and Orthodox Bibles include more.
