Development of the Old Testament canon "Apocrypha" ("hidden"). To counter Luther's "heresy", the fourth session of the Catholic Council of Trent in 1546 confirmed that the deuterocanonical books were equally authoritative as the protocanonical in the Canon of Trent in the year Luther died. Following Jerome's "Veritas Hebraica" (truth of the Hebrew) principle, the Protestant Old Testament consists of the same books as the Hebrew Bible, but the order and division of the books are different. Protestants number the Old Testament books at 39, while the Hebrew Bible numbers the same books as 24. The Hebrew Bible counts Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles as one book each,
Society for Old Testament Study 1973), The World of Ancient Israel: Sociological, Anthropological and Political Perspectives (ed. R.E. Clements; Cambridge, 1989), and SOTS at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament Study (ed. J. Jarick; London, 2017). The Society sponsors the SOTS Monograph Series, published by Cambridge University Press, and a series of Study Guides to the Old Testament, published by Bloomsbury T&T Clark. Since 1946 it publishes an annual SOTS Book List (appearing also as an issue of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament), offering short reviews of hundreds of publications in the field of Hebrew Bible / Old