The Books of the Bible they speak will be evident." This new order is introduced because "the order in which today's readers are used to encountering the books of the Bible is yet another factor that hinders their understanding." The book order in "The Books of the Bible," and the rationale for it, is as follows: The Covenant History "The first quarter of the Bible unfolds as one continuous narrative." Genesis<br> Exodus<br> Leviticus<br> Numbers<br> Deuteronomy<br> Joshua<br> Judges<br> Ruth<br> Samuel–Kings The Prophets The prophets are presented in "what… is plausibly their historical order." Jonah Amos<br> Hosea<br> Micah<br> Isaiah Zephaniah<br> Nahum<br> Habakkuk Jeremiah<br> Obadiah<br> Ezekiel Haggai<br> Zechariah<br>
The 120 Days of Sodom "Psychopathia Sexualis". Feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir wrote an essay titled "Must We Burn Sade?", protesting the destruction of "The 120 Days of Sodom" because of the light it sheds on humanity's darkest side when, in 1955, French authorities planned on destroying it and three other major works by Sade. Camille Paglia considers Sade's work a "satirical response to Jean-Jacques Rousseau" in particular, and the Enlightenment concept of man's innate goodness in general. Gilles Deleuze considers "The 120 Days" along with the rest of Sade's corpus in conjunction with Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: "The work of Sade and Masoch cannot be