Books of the Bible and which in the United States is the most used translation, being still considered a standard among Protestant churches and being used liturgically in the Orthodox Church in America—contains 80 books: 39 in the Old Testament, 14 in the Apocrypha, and 27 in the New Testament. The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Assyrian Christian 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. Rabbinic Judaism recognizes the 24 books of the Masoretic Text, commonly
Authorship of the Bible Dates are approximate, and mark the completion of the works rather than earlier source materials. The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, is the collection of scriptures making up the Bible used by Judaism; the same books, in a slightly different order, also make up the Protestant version of the Old Testament. The order used here follows the divisions used in Jewish Bibles. The Deuterocanonical works are books included in Catholic and Orthodox but not in Jewish and Protestant Bibles. Authorship of the Bible Table I gives an overview of the periods and dates ascribed to the various books of the Bible.