books of the bible

The canonical list of the Books of the Bible differs between Jews, Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox, even though there is a great deal of overlap. Below a table is presented to compare the canons of the various denominations for both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. A discussion of the differences is found in the article on Biblical canon. It should be noted that the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches may have minor differences in the list of accepted books. The list given here for these churches is the most broad list of canonical books -- that is, if at least one eastern church accepts the book, it is included in the list here. The books included by the Catholic Church are universally included in the eastern canons.

The Tanakh and the Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Old Testaments

Tanakh	Protestant Old Testament	Catholic Old Testament	aligh="center" \| Orthodox Old Testament
colspan="4" rowspan="1" \| Torah or Pentateuch
align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Genesis	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Genesis	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Genesis	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Genesis
align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Exodus	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Exodus	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Exodus	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Exodus
align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Leviticus	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Leviticus	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Leviticus	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Leviticus
align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Numbers	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Numbers	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Numbers	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" \| Numbers
align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" valign="top" \| Deuteronomy	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" valign="top" \| Deuteronomy	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" valign="top" \| Deuteronomy	align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" valign="top" \| Deuteronomy
colspan="4" rowspan="1" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" \| Nevi'im or Prophets
\| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" \| Historical books
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Joshua	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Joshua	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Joshua	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Joshua
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Judges	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Judges	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Judges	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Judges
align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" \|	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Ruth	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Ruth	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Ruth
rowspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Samuel	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 1 Samuel	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 1 Samuel	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 1 Samuel
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 2 Samuel	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 2 Samuel	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 2 Samuel
rowspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Kings	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 1 Kings	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 1 Kings	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 1 Kings
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 2 Kings	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 2 Kings	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 2 Kings
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Isaiah	colspan="3" rowspan="3" valign="top" \|
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Jeremiah
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Ezekiel
colspan="1" rowspan="30" \|	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 1 Chronicles	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 1 Chronicles	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 1 Chronicles
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 2 Chronicles	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 2 Chronicles	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 2 Chronicles
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Ezra	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Ezra	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Ezra
valign="top" \|	valign="top" \|	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" valign="top" \| 1 Esdras⁶
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Nehemiah	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Nehemiah	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Nehemiah
colspan="1" rowspan="2" \|	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Tobit¹	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Tobit¹
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Judith¹	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Judith¹
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Esther	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Esther²	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| Esther²
rowspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top" \|	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 1 Maccabees¹, ⁵	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 1 Maccabees¹, ⁵
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 2 Maccabees¹, ⁵	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 2 Maccabees¹, ⁵
rowspan="2" colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" \|	align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 3 Maccabees⁶
align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" \| 4 Maccabees⁶
colspan="3" rowspan="1" \| Wisdom books
align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Job	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Job	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Job
align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Psalms	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Psalms	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Psalms⁹
align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" \|	align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" \|	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Odes⁶, ⁷
align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Proverbs	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Proverbs	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Proverbs
align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Ecclesiastes	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Ecclesiastes	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Ecclesiastes
align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Song of Solomon	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Song of Solomon	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Song of Solomon
colspan="1" rowspan="2" \|	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Wisdom¹	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Wisdom¹
align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Sirach¹	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" \| Sirach¹
colspan="2" rowspan="1" valign="top" \|	align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99" valign="top" \| Psalms of Solomon⁶
colspan="3" rowspan="1" \| Major prophets
align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff" valign="top" \| Isaiah	align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff" valign="top" \| Isaiah	align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff" valign="top" \| Isaiah
align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Jeremiah	align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Jeremiah	align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Jeremiah
align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Lamentations	align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Lamentations	align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Lamentations
	align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Baruch¹,³	align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Baruch¹,³
colspan="2" rowspan="1" valign="top" \|	align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Letter of Jeremiah¹, ⁸
bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Ezekiel	bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Ezekiel	bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Ezekiel
bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Daniel	bgcolor="#ff99ff" \| Daniel⁴	bgcolor="#ff99ff" valign="top" \| Daniel⁴
colspan="4" rowspan="1" \| Minor prophets
bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Hosea	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Hosea	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Hosea	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Hosea
bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Joel	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Joel	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Joel	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Joel
bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Amos	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Amos	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Amos	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Amos
bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Obadiah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Obadiah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Obadiah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Obadiah
bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Jonah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Jonah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Jonah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Jonah
bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Micah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Micah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Micah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Micah
bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Nahum	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Nahum	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Nahum	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Nahum
bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Habakkuk	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Habakkuk	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Habakkuk	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Habakkuk
bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Zephaniah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Zephaniah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Zephaniah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Zephaniah
bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Haggai	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Haggai	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Haggai	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Haggai
bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Zechariah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Zechariah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Zechariah	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Zechariah
bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Malachi	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Malachi	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Malachi	bgcolor="#ffffcc" \| Malachi
bgcolor="#ffffff" \| Ketuvim or Writings¹⁰	colspan="3" rowspan="13" \|
bgcolor="#ff6666" \| Psalms
bgcolor="#ff6666" \| Job
bgcolor="#ff6666" \| Proverbs
bgcolor="#ff6666" \| Song of Songs
bgcolor="#ff6666" \| Ruth
bgcolor="#ff6666" \| Lamentations
bgcolor="#ff6666" \| Ecclesiastes
bgcolor="#ff6666" \| Esther
bgcolor="#ff6666" \| Daniel
bgcolor="#ff6666" \| Ezra
bgcolor="#ff6666" \| Nehemiah
bgcolor="#ff6666" \| Chronicles

The New Testament of all modern Christians

valign="top" | The Gospels

bgcolor="#ff9900" valign="top" | Matthew

bgcolor="#ff9900" valign="top" | Mark

bgcolor="#ff9900" valign="top" | Luke

bgcolor="#ff9900" valign="top" | John

valign="top" | The History

bgcolor="#0099FF" valign="top" | Acts

valign="top" | The Letters of Paul

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | Romans

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | 1 Corinthians

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | 2 Corinthians

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | Galatians

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | Ephesians

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | Philippians

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | Colossians

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | 1 Thessalonians

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | 2 Thessalonians

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | 1 Timothy

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | 2 Timothy

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | Titus

bgcolor="#ffff33" valign="top" | Philemon

valign="top" | The General Letters

bgcolor="#669966" valign="top" | Hebrews¹¹

bgcolor="#669966" valign="top" | James¹¹

bgcolor="#669966" valign="top" | 1 Peter

bgcolor="#669966" valign="top" | 2 Peter

bgcolor="#669966" valign="top" | 1 John

bgcolor="#669966" valign="top" | 2 John

bgcolor="#669966" valign="top" | 3 John

bgcolor="#669966" valign="top" | Jude¹¹

valign="top" | The Prophecy

bgcolor="#FF33FF" valign="top" | Revelation¹¹ or Apocalypse

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church adds a few additional books to its New Testament: Jubilees, Book of Enoch, the Shepherd of Hermas, 1 Clement, Acts of Paul, and some uniquely Ethiopian books.

Notes

Return links: Tanakh/Old Testament — New Testament ¹ This book is not in the Protestant Old Testament.
² The Catholic and Orthodox Book of Esther includes 103 verses not in the Protestant Book of Esther.
³ In Catholic Bibles, Baruch includes a sixth chapter called the Letter of Jeremiah. Baruch is not in the Protestant Old Testament.
⁴ In Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, Daniel includes three sections not included in Protestant Bibles. The Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Young Men are included between Daniel 3:23-24. Susanna is included as Daniel 13. Bel and the Dragon is included as Daniel 14. These are not in the Protestant Old Testament.
⁵ The Latin Vulgate and the Douay-Rheims place First and Second Maccabees after Malachi instead of Esther.
⁶ These books are not in the Protestant and Catholic Old Testaments.
⁷ The Book of Odes includes the Prayer of Manasseh. This book is not present in the Catholic or Protestant Old Testaments.
⁸ Eastern Orthodox Bibles have the books of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah separate.
⁹The Eastern Orthodox church adds one extra Psalm to the Book of Psalms.
¹⁰These books are found among the historical and wisdom books of the Christian canons.
¹¹Martin Luther wished to remove these books from the canon, but this did not occur. Nonetheless, in German editions of Luther's Bible, these are printed at the end of the New Testament, rather than the order given above.