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A Catholic Introduction to the Bible, Volume 1: The Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although many Catholics are familiar with the four Gospels and other writings of the New Testament, for most, reading the Old Testament is like walking into a foreign land. Who wrote these forty-six books? When were they written? Why were they written? What are we to make of their laws, stories, histories, and prophecies? Should the Old Testament be read by itself or in light of the New...

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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