two books of the Maccabees,” reads the Council of Florence’s Old Testament list. (Emphasis added by Check Your Fact.) St.

The Old Testament books are grouped in the following manner: 1) Historical books, which are arranged not in the order in which they were written but according to the order of events in time which ...

Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the history of these ancient ... Christians adopted the phrase "Old Testament" to refer to these sacred books they shared with Jews. As for the New ...

OLD TESTAMENT & ART ... Biblical scholars often divide the Book of Genesis into two parts: Chapters 1-11 are the “Primeval History,” an attempt to explain human origins, while chapters ...