39 Books Of Old Testament And Their Classification. The bible was written in. It consists of 39 books and classified as below books of israel's begining or the pentateuch;
Samuel, kings and chronicles are also divided into two books instead of one each. By adding the 12 books of the minor prophets and separating lamentations, and ezra. The christians have taken over all 39 books of the tanakh, but they changed without real reason:
The jews were accustomed to divide the old testament into three main parts, as follows:
Chapters, verses, & words of old testament & new testament divisions. Chapters, verses, & words of the old testament. The prophets (isaiah, jeremiah, lamentations, ezekiel, daniel, hosea, joel, amos, obadiah, jonah, micah, nahum, habakkuk, zephaniah, haggai, zechariah, malachi). These texts are almost exclusively in biblical hebrew, with a few passages in biblical aramaic.