Ordering of Canon

The Old Testament of the canonical, Protestant Bible shares nearly identical content as the Jewish Tanakh, yet the two collections differ in the ordering and placement of their books. The Christian Old Testament orders the Jewish sacred scriptures generally into four categories: the Pentateuch, the Historical Books, the Poetical/Wisdom Books, and the Prophetic Books. In contrast, the Jewish Tanakh orders the Hebrew scriptures into three major sections: the Torah (Law/Instruction), the Nevi’im (Prophets), and the Ketuvim (Writings)....

December 6, 2020 · 7 min · Harin Lee

Gospels Contrasted

The three canonical Gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John are three praise biographies of Jesus Christ, written by three distinct authors at different times. Unlike the Gospel of Mark, these three Gospels offer limited information about the origin story of Jesus, either through an enumeration of his genealogy, a description of his birth narrative, or an introduction of his ethereal origins with a hymnic prologue. Though ultimately describing the same figure of Jesus, the three origin stories from Matthew, Luke, and John differ in both their content and style of writing....

November 15, 2020 · 7 min · Harin Lee