introducing these books. Some follow the Jewish divisions and order, treating those books that are in the Christian Old Testament but not in the Jewish Tanakh—known as “deuterocanonical books”—at the end. Others arrange the books according to a chronological reconstruction of their dates of composition or according to the book’s claimed chronological setting or according to a hybrid compromise between canonical order and chronological order. All these systems have both advantages and disadvantages.
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