The canonical list of the Books of the Bible differs between Jews, Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox, even though there is a great deal of overlap. Below a table is presented to compare the canons of the various denominations for both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. A 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 Catholic Church are universally included in the eastern canons.
1 This book is not in the Protestant Old 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 the Song of the Three Young Men 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 instead of Esther. 6 These books are not in the Protestant and Catholic Old Testaments. 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. 9The Eastern Orthodox church adds one extra Psalm to the Book of Psalms. 10These books are found among the historical and wisdom books of the Christian canons. 11Martin Luther wished to remove these books from the canon, but this did not occur. Nonetheless, in German editions of Luther's Bible, these are printed at the end of the New Testament, rather than the order given above.
Certain sects (such as the Latter-day Saints) which accept the Bible as part of their formally adopted sacred literature may also include other works in the totality of their canon, but they generally do not consider those other works to be part of the Bible.
When St. Jerome translated the Bible into Latin, producing the Vulgate bible, he argued for the "Veritas Hebraica", or the acceptance of the Jewish canon of the Old Testament.
Bibles dating from shortly after the Reformation have been found whose tables of contents included the entire Roman Catholic canon, but which did not actually contain the disputed books, leading some historians to think that the workers at the printing presses took it upon themselves to omit them.
The Jewish Bible (called the Tanach) consists of the five books of Moses (the Torah), several books written by the Hebrew prophets (Neviim), and a few books that do not fit in either of the previous two categories (the Writings or Ketuvim); these are known as either the hagiographa[?] or simply as "the writings".
Canon refers to the accepted books of the Bible differentiated from other sacred writings not accepted as part of the canon, which are not accepted as part of the Bible.
The HebrewBible (Tanach) is divided into 3 sections, the Law (Torah), the Prophets, the Writings.
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