This is too bad because when you read the Old Testament in its traditional order, the storyline shows a remarkable unity that doesn’t quite come through in the order most Christians are accustomed to. So it’s more than likely that the re-ordering was done by Christians who were no longer familiar with the Bible in Hebrew, and had therefore lost touch with its original design shape. However, this original design shape of the Hebrew scrolls was never lost in Jewish tradition up to this day. Our earliest manuscripts with the order of the modern Bible are in Christian manuscripts dating to the mid-300s A.D. Now I’m not saying that there was anything inherently wrong with the decision to re-order the books with a new name, “the Old Testament.” In fact, we don’t even know precisely when this change happened. Rather, it was a collection of separate scrolls that were made to be read as a unified collection, and the book designed as the concluding crown jewel was Chronicles! Your favorite books of the Bible, I’m sure. In fact, it wasn’t even a single volume book. The Bible that Jesus was familiar with, what we now refer to as the Old Testament, did not end with Malachi.

While this is true of your Bible, this has not always been the case, and it certainly wasn’t in Jesus’ time.

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