About forty men were engaged in the writing of the Bible, during a period of about 1600 years -- that is, from 1500 B.C. to ...

Specifically we do not agree on the Old Testament (OT) canon - the list of ... I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT.

The Old Testament books are grouped in the following ... to the order of events in time which they narrate (Genesis to Esther); 2) Didactic or sapiential or moral books, which are so called ...