there is acknowledgment that other books were being read in the churches! This kind of ordering of the biblical books led to the criticism by some Jews that since the Christians had abandoned the law, it was no longer a priority in their Bibles. Schwarz, for instance, writes concerning the order and collections of books in the Christian OT: This generic grouping fails to keep the Torah in a class by itself and identifies prophecy as the climax of the Bible. These two features may account for the