Father, please, for one more hour here, I pray for your help.

We need to make progress in going deep with your word.

And so I ask for your assistance again, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Which books make up the Bible?

That is, which books are in the time of the Bible that are in the Catholic canon, for example,

namely the Apocrypha, which include books like these,

Estrus, First and Second, Tobit, Judith, and so on.

These are the books that you would find in the Apocrypha.

Now, the question would be, one question, why don't we have those in our Bible? Most of those come from the period

between the Testaments, Intertestimental period, now called Second Temple Judaism.

The belief concerning those books among the Jews was this.

The rabbinical literature, this is from the Talmud.

After the latter prophets, Hegai, Zechariah, and Malachi had died, the Holy Spirit departed from Israel,

but they still availed themselves of the Bot-Col, daughter of the voice.

So the typical Jewish view in Jesus' day was that after the minor prophets, there wasn't any

inspiration of Scripture. Now, the question is, is that what Jesus thought? Is that what

we should think or not.

Here's the Jewish canon that I'm going to argue for, because that's what's in our Bible,

and I think we can know why.

The Hebrew canon was traditionally 24 books, which include all of our 39 and no more, and these are divided into three sections. The reason it goes from 29 to 24 is

because they combine some that we separate. I'll show you what they are in a minute.

There are three sections in the Old Testament, Jewish Hebrew canon, Torah, Neveem, and Ketuvim.

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