There is no single "Bible" and many Bibles with varying materials exist. The term Bible is shared between Judaism and Christianity, although the materials of each of their collections of canonical texts is not the same.
The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, has twenty-four books divided right into three parts: the 5 books of the Torah ("training" or "regulation"), the Nevi'im ("prophets"), and the Ketuvim ("works"). Christian Bibles range from the sixty-six books of the Protestant canon to the eighty-one books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church canon. The very first part of all Christian Bibles is the Old Testament, which includes, at minimum, the twenty-four publications of the Hebrew Bible divided right into thirty-nine publications and ordered in a different way from the Hebrew Bible. The Catholic Church and Eastern Christian churches likewise hold certain deuterocanonical publications and passages to be part of the Old Testament canon. The 2nd component of the Christian Bible is the New Testament, containing twenty-seven publications originally written in Koine Greek, which go over the trainings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. The New Testament is separated into the four Canonical scriptures, the Acts of the Apostles, twenty-one Epistles or didactic letters, and guide of Revelation.
By the 2nd century BCE Jewish groups had called the Bible books the "scriptures" and referred to them as "divine," or in Hebrew, and Christians now commonly call the Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible "The Holy Bible", in Greek or "the Holy Scriptures". A very early 4th-century Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible is found in the Codex Vaticanus.
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