Originally published in a two-volume edition, this work studies the books of the Hebrew prophets.

The books of the Old Testament, showing their positions in both the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible, shown with their names in Hebrew ) and Christian Bibles.

The Deuterocanon or biblical apocrypha | Apocrypha are colored differently from the Protocanon ( the Hebrew Bible books which are considered canonical by all ).

The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox receive several additional books in to their canons based upon their presence in manuscripts of the ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, the Septuagint ( although some of these books, such as Sirach and Tobit, are now known to be extant in Hebrew or Aramaic originals, being found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls ).

), while generally using the Septuagint and Vulgate, now supplemented by the ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts, as the textual basis for the deuterocanonical books.

Isaiah is the most quoted of all the books of the Hebrew Bible outside of the Torah.

The Book of Numbers ( from Greek Ἀριθμοί, Arithmoi ;, Bəmidbar, " In the desert ") is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah.

It was in this period that the Pentateuch ( or Torah, to give the Hebrew name ) was composed, by detaching the book of Deuteronomy from the Deuteronomistic history and adding it to the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers.

The Book of Ruth (; Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: ; Ashkenazi Hebrew: ; Biblical Hebrew: Megilath Ruth " the Scroll of Ruth ") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament.

The Book of Job (; Hebrew: א ִ יו ֹ ב ‎ ʾ iyobh ), commonly referred to simply as Job, is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible.

The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah and preceding the Book of the Twelve.

The Book of Hosea is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible.

These books are not part of the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ), they are apocryphal books instead.

This idea is first found in the Torah ( the five books of Moses, which are also included in the Christian Bible ) and is elaborated on in later books of the Hebrew Bible.

Christians accept the Written Torah and other books of the Hebrew Bible as Scripture, although they generally give readings from the Koine Greek Septuagint translation instead of the Biblical Hebrew / Biblical Aramaic Masoretic Text.

Some Christian denominations ( such as Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox ), include a number of books that are not in the Hebrew Bible ( the biblical apocrypha or deuterocanonical books or Anagignoskomena, see Development of the Old Testament canon ) in their biblical canon that are not in today's Jewish canon, although they were included in the Septuagint.

Modern scholarly thinking is that the books originated by combining a number of independent texts of various ages when the larger Deuteronomistic history ( the Former Prophets plus Deuteronomy ) was being composed in the period c. 630-540 BCE.

Joel is part of a group of twelve prophetic books known as the Minor Prophets or simply as The Twelve ; the distinction ' minor ' indicates the short length of the text in relation to the larger prophetic texts known as the " Major Prophets ".

There is here given the whole service for every Sunday and week-day, the proper antiphons, responsories, hymns, and especially the course of daily Scripture-reading, averaging about twenty verses a day, and ( roughly ) arranged thus: for Advent, Isaiah ; Epiphany to Septuagesima, Pauline Epistles ; Lent, patristic homilies ( Genesis on Sundays ); Passion-tide, Jeremiah ; Easter to Whitsun, Acts, Catholic epistles and Apocalypse ; Whitsun to August, Samuel and Kings ; August to Advent, Wisdom books, Maccabees, Prophets.

Many midrashim start off with a seemingly unrelated sentence from the Biblical books of Psalms, Proverbs or the Prophets.

The following table shows the arrangement of the holy books in the Jewish Bible and the Old Testament ( Jewish bibles count 24 books, as shown here, but Christian bibles divide Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah and the Minor Prophets, bringing the total to 39 ; books additional to the Hebrew Bible in italics ):

Readings from the Torah ( five books of Moses ) and the Nevi ' im (" Prophets ") form part of the prayer services.

The Tanakh consists of twenty-four books: it counts as one book each Samuel, Kings, Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah and counts Trei Asar ( תרי עשר, the Twelve Prophets ; literally " twelve ") as a single book.

Most versions of the Christian Old Testament count Samuel, Kings, Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah as two books each, and the " Twelve Prophets " ( or the minor prophets ) as 12 books, giving rise to a count of 39 books for the Old Testament.

Nevi ' im ( נ ְ ב ִ יא ִ ים, " Prophets ") consists of eight books.

These events are described in the Prophets ( Nevi ' im ) and Writings ( Ketuvim ), sections of the Hebrew Bible ( in the books 2 Kings and Jeremiah, and 2 Chronicles, respectively ).

The widespread practice is that on the first Sabbath of his thirteenth year, a boy is called up to read from the weekly portion of the Law ( five books of Moses ), either as one of the first seven men or as the last, in which case he will read the closing verses and the Haftarah ( selections from the books of the Prophets ); and if he is unable to read, to recite at least the benediction before and after the reading.

The Nevi ' im, the books of the Prophets, are considered divine and true.

* Neviim-The books of the Prophets

The great editions of the Hebrew Bible with rabbinical commentaries contained also commentaries of Ibn Ezra's on the following books of the Bible: Isaiah, Minor Prophets, Psalms, Job, Pentateuch, Daniel ; the commentaries on Proverbs, Ezra and Nehemiah which bear his name are really those of Moses Kimhi.

In the rabbinical editions of the Bible the following commentaries of Ibn Ezra on Biblical books are likewise printed: Isaiah ; the Twelve Minor Prophets ; Psalms ; Job ; the Megillot ; Daniel.

In his brief survey of Arabic translations of the Bible, al-Masʿūdī states that the Israelites rely for exegesis and translation of the Hebrew books — i. e., the Torah, Prophets, and Psalms, twenty-four books in all, he says — on a number of Israelites whom they praise highly, almost all of whom he has met in person.

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The Jewish philosopher and pantheist Baruch Spinoza echoed Hobbes's doubts about the provenance of the historical books in his A Theologico-Political Treatise ( published in 1670 ), and elaborated on the suggestion that the final redaction of these texts was post-exilic under the auspices of Ezra ( Chapter IX ).

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The Jewish idea of being chosen is first found in the Torah ( five books of Moses ) and is elaborated on in later books of the Hebrew Bible.

In his later books, Abulafia repeatedly elaborated upon a system of seven paths of interpretation, which he used sometimes in his commentary on the Pentateuch, which starts with the plain sense, includes also allegorical interpretation, and culminates in interpretations of the discrete letters, the latter conceived of as the path to prophecy.

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In reaction to the emergence of anarchist ideologies and movements, Saint-Yves had elaborated a more conservative political-theological formula over a series of 4 books from 1882 onwards which he believed would result in a harmonious society by considering it as an organic unity.