If you are Jewish, then there are 39 books in the Old Testament. If you are a Protestant Christian, then you accept all the books of the Old Testament, plus the 27 books of the New Testament, for a total of 66 books. If you are Catholic, then you accept all 66 books mentioned above, plus the books of the Apocrypha. The number of accepted Apocryphal books differs from parish to parish, between 11 to 16 books.

There are also parts of the New Testament, such as the Gospel of Thomas, that are accepted by a small minority of Christians as legitimate and dismissed by the rest. There is no "official" count kept that all Christians accept.

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The Church View: In the Catholic Church the version used is the Douay-Rheims Bible consisting of 73 books. In the Protestant church only the 66 books approved by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1885, which today is known as the Authorized King James Bible, are used. No other books, neither the Apocrypha, which was included in the original King James Bible, nor the 22 books mentioned or quoted in the King James Bible, are considered inspired. The Bible View: There was no specific list or accounting of all the books that made up the Bible until the commission of the first Bible by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th Century AD. The books that make up the Authorized King James Bible were chosen by men, not divine forces. The language of the King James Bible is obscure and limited. Constantine began what was to become a centuries long effort to eliminate any book in the original Bible that was considered unacceptable to the new doctrine of the church. At that time, it is believed there were up to 600 books, which comprised the work we now know as the Bible. Through a series of decisions made by the early church leadership, all but 80 of those books, known as the King James Translation of 1611, were purged from the work, with a further reduction by the Protestant Reformation bringing the number to 66 in the "Authorized" King James Bible. From the net.

There are 66 books, some such as Kings being split in two.

66 books in the bible. Get a King James Version bible or a New Living Translation, or something like that, but King James is the best one, but in all of them if you read the table of contents it will be 66 books. Good Luck!! And also try reading some of them while your at it!! God Bless.

Remember this. # of books in OT: 39 # of books in NT: 27 Total # of books: 66 As you can tell, all # above are divisible by 3. Neat huh?

Depends on which Bible. The Catholic one includes the Apocrypha. The Jewish Torah excludes the New Testament. The (multiple) protestant translations exclude the Apocrypha. My Bible has 66 books.

This may look like a simple question, but it is not. It has several answers: 1. Jewish Bible has 24 Books. 2. Protestant Bible has 66 Books. 3. Catholic Bible has 73 Books. 4. Greek Orthodox Bible has 78 Books. 5. Slavic Orthodox Bible has 78 Books, but different from the Greek Orthodox Bible. 6. Ethiopian Orthodox Bible has 81 Books.

+5. I cannot top Marguerite, she was perfect in her answer. I will say that no matter what you do read the Bible and study the Word of God

In the Catholic Church: Old Testament = 46 Books 1. Genesis 2. Exodus 3. Leviticus 4. Numbers 5. Deuteronomy 6. Joshua 7. Judges 8. Ruth 9. 1 Samuel 10. 2 Samuel 11. 1 Kings 12. 2 Kings 13. 1 Chronicles 14. 2 Chronicles 15. Ezra 16. Nehemiah 17. Tobit 18. Judith 19. Esther 20. 1 Maccabees 21. 2 Maccabees 22. Job 23. Psalms 24. Proverbs 25. Ecclesiastes 26. Song of Songs 27. Wisdom 28. Sirach 29. Isaiah 30. Jeremiah 31. Lamentations 32. Baruch 33. Ezekiel 34. Daniel 35. Hosea 36. Joel 37. Amos 38. Obadiah 39. Jonah 40. Micah 41. Nahum 42. Habakkuk 43. Zephaniah 44. Haggai 45. Zechariah 46. Malachi New Testament = 27 Books 1. Matthew 2. Mark 3. Luke 4. John 5. Acts 6. Romans 7. 1 Corinthians 8. 2 Corinthians 9. Galatians 10. Ephesians 11. Philippians 12. Colossians 13. 1 Thessalonians 14. 2 Thessalonians 15. 1 Timothy 16. 2 Timothy 17. Titus 18. Philemon 19. Hebrews 20. James 21. 1 Peter 22. 2 Peter 23. 1 John 24. 2 John 25. 3 John 26. Jude 27. Revelation 46 + 27 = 73 Books total. For more information, see the New American Bible: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/ Papal decree by Pope Damasus that creates the bible: http://www.tertullian.org/decretum_eng.htm With love in Christ.

1) Tanakh: 24 books "The Tanakh (Hebrew: תַּנַ"ךְ‎) (IPA: [taˈnax] or [təˈnax]; also Tenakh or Tenak) is a name for the Bible used in Rabbinic Judaism, also known as the Masoretic Text. The name "Tanakh" is a Hebrew acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Masoretic Text's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah ("Teaching," also known as the Five Books of Moses), Nevi'im ("Prophets") and Ketuvim ("Writings") - hence TaNaKh. The elements of the Tanakh are incorporated in various forms in Christian Bibles, in which, with some variations, it is called the "Old Testament, a term linked with Supersessionism."" "The Tanakh is an acronym of the initial Hebrew letters of the Tanakh's three traditional subdivisions: Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim. According to Jewish tradition, the Tanakh consists of twenty-four books. The Tanakh counts as one book what are sometimes counted as two in Christian Bibles (e.g. 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings and so forth), and counts Trei Asar (תרי עשר, the Twelve Prophets; though literally, "twelve") as a single book." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanakh 2) "The number of books in the Bible depends on whose Bible to whom one is referring. All Christian churches recognize the 27 New Testament books. The difference in the number of books comes in the Old Testament. Generally speaking, Protestant denominations recognize 39 books of the Jewish canon as the only books in the Old Testament canon. Roman Catholics accept 46 books in the Old Testament canon, along with additions to Protestant versions Esther and Daniel. Greek Orthodox churches accept the 39 books of the Old Testament, the 7 additional books and various additions accepted by the Catholic Church, and 5 additional books. Also, Greek Orthodox Bibles contain a 151st Psalm. This means that in the Protestant Bible there are 66 books, in the Roman Catholic Bible 73 books, and in the Greek Orthodox Bible 78 books. The various numbers of books accepted as part of the Old Testament by the various Christian traditions derive from Christianity's roots in first century Judaism. While the modern day Jewish canon contains only the 39 books accepted by all Christian churches, in the first century the common scriptural text used among Jews (and Christians) was called the Septuagint (often abbreviated LXX). This text, which was mostly a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, also contained several additional texts, some of which were only written in Greek. The LXX, which was in common usage among the early Christians, thus became the basis for the Christian Bible. Only with the Reformation were the additional books in the LXX pulled out of the Christian Bible by some churches. These additional texts are known to Protestants as the Apocrypha, and various Protestant denominations value the Apocrypha differently, from totally irrelevant to useful for teaching and modeling a way of life." Source and further information: http://www.helium.com/items/134364-how-many-books-in-the-bible 3) "Books of the Bible are listed differently in the canons of Jews, and Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Slavonic Orthodox, Georgian, Armenian Apostolic, Syriac and Ethiopian Churches, although there is substantial overlap. A table comparing the canons of some of these denominations appears below, for both the Old Testament and the New Testament. For a detailed discussion of the differences, see "Biblical canon." The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches may have minor differences in their lists of accepted books. The list given here for these churches is the most inclusive: if at least one Eastern church accepts the book, it is included here. The books included by the Roman Catholic Church are universally included in the Eastern canons." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_the_Bible (this article contains a comparative table of all the books in various canons)

Sorry I was tracking Payton and I read "boobs" instead of books. So your question shocked me for one moment.

I would normally answer 66, but for details, you might read Iwnit's and Marguerite's answers.