(Law), N for Nebi’im (Prophets), and K for Ketubim (Writings). Jews also use the term Mikra (Heb., “to recite”) for their Holy Scriptures unless they are referring to a specific scripture text. These books were initially counted as twenty-two books, but later that number changed to twenty-four, the same number of books in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.2 All Christians today recognize as sacred scripture the books that comprise the Jewish scriptures or Hebrew Bible (HB),3 but, as we will see, not completely