Prior to extractions, how many books did the original Bible consist of and what were they?

Question

There may be books yet to be uncovered; but as of late, I was wondering what books are considered to be valid and are just not written in most contemporary Bibles.

Answer 1

The Old Testament has 39 books total, which consist of...

Pentateuch - 5 books
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
Historical Books - 12 books
Joshua, Judges, Ruth, First Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, Second Kings, First Chronicles, Second Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
Poetic books- 5 books
Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon
Prophetic books- 17 books
Major Prophets - Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel
Minor Prophets - Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.

New Testament 27 Books:

Historical Books - Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts

Pauline Epistles - Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians. 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

Non-Pauline Epistles - Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Revelation

Answer 2

Actually, these are not the lost books of the Bible. We have all that God has ordained for us. A lot of people think the Bible isn't trustworthy and that many books were removed from it. That isn't the case. But, there were many ancient books around when the Bible was written. Here are some of them.
Introduction
Are these books lost books of the Bible?

Pseudepigraphal Books
Epistle of Barnabas
First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
The letter of the Smyrnaeans or the Martyrdom of Polycarp
The Shepherd of Hermas
The Book of Enoch
Gospel of Judas (130-170 AD)
Gospel of Thomas (140-170 AD)
The Psalms of Solomon
The Odes of Solomon
The Testaments of the twelve Patriarchs
Second Baruch
Third Baruch
The Books of Adam and Eve

Deuterocanonical (Apocryphal) Books
1 Esdras (150-100 BC)
2 Esdras (100 AD)
Tobit (200 BC)
Judith (150 BC)
Additions to Esther (140-130 BC)
Wisdom of Solomon (30 BC)
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) (132 BC)
Barach (150-50 BC)
Letter of Jeremiah (300-100 BC)
Susanna (200-0 BC)
Bel and the Dragon (100 BC)
Additions to Daniel (Prayer of Azariah (200-0 BC)
Prayer of Manassesh (100-0 BC)
1 Maccabees (110 BC)
2 Maccabees (110-170 BC)

The Bible contains 66 books: 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.

Answer 3

When dealing with the New Testament, the 27 books that make up of the current New Testament are all of the books that have ever been included in copies of the New Testament. While there have been dozens of other books written about Jesus and God, at no time have any of them been included in a copy of the New Testament. The "official" list of books what decided around 325AD. But we still have over 2,300 manuscripts of the New Testament books from before that council.

Most are not complete New Testament, because a single scroll was not large enough to hold all 27 books. So they were normally grouped as "the gospels" which often included the book of Acts also, the letters of Paul (sometimes only his nine general letters, other also included his four personal letters), the book of Acts by itself, the book of Revelation by itself, Hebrews by itself, the other epistles (Peter, John, James and Jude) together.

The "book", or codec, was not invented until around 250AD, which made it possible to put something as large as the NT into a single volume. Shortly after that complete NTs begin to appear. Of those that survive from before the council, all include the 27 books of today's New Testament. There are two which include additional books. These are located after the book of Revelation. Once includes a book called "The Shepherd of Hermes" which is a poetry book known to have been written by Hermes, a third century church leader - and the bishop of the church that included the book. It was rejected by the Council because it was not written by a "first generation" author - one of the requirements to make it it. The second one includes the First Epistle of Clement. Clement was a student of the apostle John, who died in 102 AD. Again, because he was not a "first generation" Christian, his writing was not included in the New Testament.

Minutes of the Nicene Council still exist today. So we can go back and see what was actually debated and voted on at the council. There was not a single book rejected by the Council. Rather the debate was about whether in include four of the books: 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John and Jude. All four are short (three of them are a single chapter) books with limited theological value. Because of their size, they had not been widely circulated. After the debate, they were included. So every book debated at the Council WAS included in the New Testament.

Beyond that, these is no evidence that any of the other books about Jesus were ever included in the New Testament or considered scripture. Rather, there are surviving documents which show the rejection of most of those books long before the time of the Nicene Council. Often with information about who wrote the books, at what time (often 200-300 years after the facts), and what heresy the books were trying to prove. (Seems like the people who were living at the times the books appeared would have a better idea whether they were real or not then we would looking back 1600 years later.)

Answer 4

The problem with your question is that you neglected to specify which cult's opinion you are interested in.

As others have pointed out, various bibles contain various collections of books with various footnotes indicating various levels of acceptance of authorship. It all depends on who you ask.

Different Christian cults believe different things and, in many cases, were created because of it. The Roman and Orthodox cults split up over the word "filioque" ("and the son" in Latin - the dispute being whether the holy ghost proceeds from the father and the son or just from the father). Another example is the ten commandments. Since god apparently lacked basic word processing and neglected to put the ten commandments in outline form the cults disagree on how to divide the text into ten bullets.

Ultimately, there is not now and never has been a "the" bible.

Answer 5

There was no original bible. There were just about 100 different scriptures.

It was not until the Nicean council (325 CE) that the priests decided to canonize the bible (agree to combine the assorted scriptures into the bible we know today)

During this council; more than 20 of the scriptures were voted out of the bible, and during the protestant movement; 7 other scriptures were removed from the Catholic version of the bible.

It was in 576 CE; that the teaching of reincarnation was voted out of the bible.

Answer 6

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers have been written by 3 distinctive aspects. The E resource develop into written between 922 and 722 BCE, the J resource develop into written between 848 and 722 BCE, and the P resource develop into written between 722 and 609 BCE, probable contained throughout King Hezekiah. Deuteronomy, alongside with the subsequent six books of the Bible, develop into probable written down approximately 622 BCE. Edit: As for the recent testomony, Paul's letters have been written contained in the path of the 1st century CE, Mark's gospel develop into written around sixty 5 CE, John's gospel develop into written around ninety CE, and the different gospels have been written between those 2 dates. @Jim: would desire to you hyperlink me to a piece of writing on the Hebrew text textile you suggested?

Answer 7

There are no extractions from the Bible. All the books in the Bible are valid. I'll leave it that.

Answer 8

The books that are in the Bible today are the ones that belong there. Contrary to what you may have seen in the DiVinci Code, the other books are either forgeries, or are not inspired works.

Answer 9

Think it was over 100 (66 today). They included 2Romans I think 3Corinthians, the Infancy, the Gospel of Mary Magdeline, among others.

There are also extensions to Genesis and Exodus in some Jewish editions.

Answer 10

I think the only change from the Canon was that they took out a book called the Shepherd something and replaced it with Revelations.